At the beginning of this year, there were more than 56,000 ICs with normalised expenses in Slovenia, almost half of whom are ICs with afternoon activity. Anyone with an annual income of up to 100,000 euros (IC with afternoon activity up to 50,000 euros) can enter the standard taxation system, while the tax now amounts …
Deflation is good for the consumer and inflation is bad. I hope we can all agree on that. And the reason for it is simple – with inflation, we get fewer goods and services per unit of money in a given period of time than in previous periods. This is due to too much (cheap) …
The latest Valicon survey shows that two-thirds of respondents are affected by the rising costs of living – Slovenian Press Agency reports that the number of people whose daily lives have been significantly affected by falling asset values is increasing month by month. This time, 19 percent of respondents chose this answer. And OECD research …
Golob’s “Freedom” In Numbers: Two-Thirds Of The Population Feel Poorer Than Before Read More »
While Robert Golob kept emphasising throughout the election campaign how we need to help young people, the government’s actions show that they actually have completely different priorities. Namely, the Members of Parliament from Golob’s party voted against the proposed amendment to the School Meals Act, which would have provided free lunch for pupils and students. …
“The development of publicly funded scientific research, which has strong support in local communities and the economy in South-Eastern Slovenia, is a very important piece in the mosaic of development breakthroughs. An attempt to prevent the financing of this activity and to stop investing in equipment for this new institute is also an attempt to …
The New Government Is Targeting the Education System and the Development of the Country Read More »
“This decision reminds us of the dark times in our history, when people were first “branded” because of such lists, and then later, from one day to the next, they were negatively stigmatised. After that, they literally put stamps on them, and in the end, they burned them,” Zvone Černač, an MP from the Slovenian …
“If we will not be successful, we will have no choice but to come to Ljubljana with our tractors,” warned Anton Medved, the President of the Slovenian Farmers’ Union, who hopes that the new government will also listen to the farmers while setting up the working group to prepare measures to tackle the high cost …
The Farmers Have Had Enough; They Threatened the Government With a Protest With Tractors Read More »
The personnel moves of the new Prime Minister Robert Golob are causing quite a stir. One of his most controversial decisions was the appointment of the Secretary of State for National Security. Žan Mahnič has been replaced by the Russophile Andrej Benedejčič at a time when we are witnessing Russian aggression against Ukraine. On top …
“The European Union needs to hear about these shameful ‘death lists.’ These are not professional politicians. This government is targeting ordinary officials,” political analyst Mitja Iršič criticised the latest move of Golob’s government, which decided to not only remove the top civil servants, but ordinary officials as well. Before entering politics, the long-serving President of …
