This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore) …
Thursday’s extraordinary session of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly will undoubtedly remain in many people’s memories for a long time to come. It was the first time in history that members of the coalition had taken the floor from a Member of Parliament by vote. There were also numerous interruptions of Slovenian …
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Thursday’s meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly focused on Slovenia’s “miscarriage of justice”. MPs of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska straka – SDS) expressed their disagreement with the conduct of the Slovenian judicial system, which often acts unjustly, with many cases ending up before the European Court of Human Rights. …
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In the latest issue of the Demokracija magazine (“Democracy”), we took a closer look at the recent promotional “coffee meet-up” of Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković, Prime Minister Robert Golob, and the last leader of the Communist Party of Slovenia and first President of the Republic of Slovenia Milan Kučan at the Ljubljana market. By meeting …
The entire top brass of the Court of Audit, with the first signatory being the President, Jana Ahčin, sent a letter of protest to Prime Minister Robert Golob (the Freedom Movement party) and the Speaker of the National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič (the Freedom Movement party), protesting the fact that the Parliament cut the institution’s …
“The Slovenian government is not the guardian of international law,” reads the Israeli response to Slovenia’s demarche regarding recent developments in Lebanon. The demarche, which our editorial office managed to obtain, also states that they regret “the unilateral and hostile statements made by Slovenian officials, in particular by the Slovenian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.” …
Long queues of people – mostly the elderly – waited to register with a new family doctor in front of the Health Centre in Slovenska Bistrica on Monday, after the previous concessionary family doctor left and another family doctor retired earlier. This left thousands of citizens without a personal physician. The new doctor filled the …
During the term of the government of Janez Janša, the European Commission sent a special delegation to Slovenia to deal with alleged threats to the rule of law and media freedom, based on fabricated reports by Slovenian left-wing activists. It was rumoured that journalists dare not leave their apartments and that they are being intimidated …
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Last year, on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of All Totalitarian Regimes, the government of Robert Golob took a selective approach to condemning totalitarianisms. While highlighting the crimes of fascism and Nazism, the communist regime remained in the shadows. Historians said at the time that this was a deliberate avoidance of confronting one’s …
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Prime Minister Robert Golob, together with Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko and Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Luka Mesec, is at the bottom of the most recent ranking list of politicians, published on Sunday by the POP TV media outlet, and conducted by Mediana. When it comes to relations on the …
A year has passed already since the devastating storms hit Slovenia. The water receded, and the government’s promises of a speedy solution to the housing problems of the flood victims disappeared as soon as the tragedy was forgotten by the mainstream media. At the time, Prime Minister Robert Golob said that the rehabilitation would be …
Running a government was never Robert Golob’s first choice. He lacked, as he told the media before the elections, the “inner motivation” to do so. Today, he no longer says this, but he definitely shows it through his actions. He seems to spend more time on holiday than at his desk at the government headquarters …
