“Every government wants to control the media, but since this, the current government, has crossed all boundaries, it seems to me that they went into the elections with the maxim that they were bringing freedom and that they were ending some supposed dictatorship that the previous government was supposedly running. Now we see that they …
The Golob Government Cannot Stand Even A Hint Of Media Criticism! Read More »
Prime Minister Robert Golob announced a new separation in front of the Constitutional Court after he and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, demanded that their conduct should not be reviewed by Constitutional Court Judge Klemen Jaklič, because he is not “theirs.” They wanted to have him disqualified. The judges then quite …
Slovenia is the penultimate country in the European Union in terms of spending the funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan, and in terms of our Cohesion Policy, we have fallen from 4th to 9th place. Apparently, the government of Robert Golob believes that we do not need the money for development and recovery that …
Inflation in Slovenia is not slowing down, and we are also among the countries with the highest labour costs growth. Golob’s income tax “reform,” which overturned Janša’s labour cost cuts, is already showing its first results. At 9.4 percent, Slovenia’s inflation was slightly above the euro area average and slightly below the European Union average …
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“I think every lawyer expected this to be halted,” former Constitutional Court judge, Jan Zobec, commented on the Constitutional Court’s decision regarding the amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act. The proposer of the amendment, the government of Robert Golob, has thus experienced “quite a shock” and “the first step” on which it stumbled, according to …
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The National Assembly will not consider the highly controversial bill on the temporary allowances for judges and public prosecutors after all. The government’s proposal had already been criticised from the outset, especially because of its choice of procedure. Namely, the government had chosen the urgent procedure, which is reserved by law for exceptional circumstances, such …
The Government Withdrew A Law That Would Have Given Judges And Prosecutors Salary Raises Read More »
On Thursday, the Golob government decided that Janez Zemljarič, the former director of the State Security Service of Yugoslavia, who was considered one of the most influential godfathers from the background, will be buried with military honours, even though Zemljarič has been accused in the last decade of playing an important role in the State …
The basic political platform of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) is “freedom from the anti-covid measures.” The essence of the convincing victory, apart from the demonisation of Janša and the ferocious polarisation, was to make people feel that they were being wronged during the epidemic – not allowed to go for a coffee, not …
They Promised Us Freedom, But Instead, We Got Repression Read More »
On the 29th of July 2022, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted a regulation on the protection of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. Nothing unusual, you might say. But in fact, this is a very important act, which has never been adopted on this scale in the history of Slovenia. …
“The implementation further confirms the assessment that the adopted amended state budget is unrealistic,” the Fiscal Council wrote today. They also warned of the risk that the government would not allocate the resources of the interventionist legislation to mitigate the effects of the rising prices and the energy crisis. The implementation of this year’s budget …
An essay has recently appeared online that exposes the power of Robert Golob and his coalition partners from the inside. A young academic, Tadej Troha, PhD, a representative of the younger generation of Slovenian intellectuals, had joined the National Institute of Public Health’s working group on the social and communication aspects of the epidemic. They …
Young Academic On Tackling The Epidemic: We Blew It Read More »
In the first nine months of this year, the police dealt with 15,590 illegal border crossings, which is an increase of almost 115 percent, compared to the 7,260 illegal border crossings that happened in the same period last year. According to police statistics, the largest number of illegal migrants continues to be from Afghanistan, with …
