On Wednesday, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, delivered her last State of the Union address in this mandate to the European Parliament. “The intensity with which the European Commission promoted President Ursula von der Leyen’s speech reinforced the expectation that she would say something new and crucial for our future …
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“Since the beginning of the process of amending the Radio-Television Slovenia Act, I have regularly and thoroughly warned various Brussels institutions about the political subjugation of the Slovenian national media outlet. Their reactions are the perfect examples of duplicity,” MEP Romana Tomc was critical, insisting that the reactions are also an indication of how quickly …
MEP Romana Tomc is known for fighting against the corporate-leftist political conglomerate in the European Parliament, whose main source of information on the situation in Slovenia is the leftist Peace Institute (Mirovni inštitut) and perhaps also Marko Milosavljević from the Faculty of Social Sciences. At the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where …
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“I took the opportunity to have a brief exchange of views with Commissioner Věra Jourová during the meetings, in particular on Radio-Television Slovenia. As expected, when asked whether she was following the developments regarding RTV, I was told that she was waiting for the Constitutional Court’s decision. Apparently, Jourová “does not know” how one of …
As we have previously reported, Janja Sluga, a member of the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) party (who is also a former “renegade” of the SMC party and one of the four lone socialist horsemen in the party – along with Brane Rajić and Igor Zorčič), when convening four regular meetings of the Commission for Public …
Media freedom in the EU was debated in the EP. In response to the event, the N1 studio prepared a confrontation between Tomc (SDS) and MEP Joveva (Svoboda). Joveva served up with sweeping accusations at the level of a fortune teller. It was platitudes in the style that the conference was “bizarre” and that it was “deception, manipulation, and distortions”. Tomc …
Throughout the two years of the Janša government, European Commissioner for Values and Transparency and Vice-President of the European Commission, Vera Jourová, was known as a European functionary whose rhetoric was very similar to that of the Slovenian far-left activists in the media, academia and politics, who exported fabricated stories to Brussels about the “repression” …
As we know, the left-wing governments have traditionally been extremely bad at absorbing funds from the European Union. Whether this is a case of operational incompetence or, more importantly, a lack of dedication, since the potential for corruption with EU public funds is much lower, is a matter for debate. But the data show beyond …
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Slovenian MEP Romana Tomc has sent a letter to MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld, in which she warns her about the war against the media and independent journalism that we have witnessed since the government of Robert Golob took office. She notes that media freedom in Slovenia is rapidly declining and recalls a recent incident …
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The saga of the infamous C0 channel, which runs across the Kleče aquifer and is a source of drinking water for 300,000 Ljubljana residents, also resonated with Brussels. The project is co-financed by the EU, despite the many objections of the people of Ljubljana and the negative opinion given by the National Institute of Public …
As we have already reported, Prime Minister Robert Golob addressed an almost empty European Parliament on Tuesday and, in his style, in addition to the usual formalities about Ukraine, the green transition and the energy crisis that all European leaders have to mention in their speeches, he also attacked the previous Slovenian government with his …
As we have already reported, Prime Minister Robert Golob addressed an almost empty European Parliament on Tuesday and, in his style, in addition to the usual formalities about Ukraine, the green transition and the energy crisis that all European leaders have to mention in their speeches, he also attacked the previous Slovenian government with his …
