Andrej Grah Whatmough, Acting Director-General of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), has sent a request to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, for a meeting between senior representatives of the European Commission and the management team of RTV Slovenia. …
The Constitutional Court, which also had the constitutional petition on the amendment to the Radio Television Slovenia (RTVS) Act with Peter Gregorčič – the chairman of the Programme Council of the national media outlet, as a first signatory – on the agenda at Thursday’s session, has still not adopted a decision in this case, the …
The Constitutional Court Has Still Not Reached A Decision About Golob’s RTV Act Read More »
“For the Minister of Culture to go on strike along with the Radio-Television Slovenia staff is something that no minister in the UK, Australia or the US would ever dare to do,” Nina Kojima, a former and current correspondent from London for the national media outlet RTV, who has returned to journalism after five years, …
An RTV Correspondent From London On The Russophilia Of Slovenian Politics And RTV Read More »
They say that the right, or more specifically Janez Janša, has hijacked the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV). However, given that Thursday’s central daily news show censored the contribution of the journalist and historian Jože Možina, who is considered to be a particular thorn in the side of the left, because he is among …
The National Media Outlet RTV Censored Možina’s Piece Read More »
Following her scandalous visit to the Constitutional Court while the Court was in the process of deciding on the Radio-Television Slovenia Act, and following the allegations of her pressuring the Court, European Commissioner Věra Jourová has become a bit more cautious. In an interview with the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), she refused to comment on …
Some people in our country desperately miss the old days, when those who were not liked or who were critical of the authorities were banned from appearing in the public media, lest anyone think that we were not doing as well as the ruling regime said. Among those who still feel this way is also …
“For me, this interpellation has brought two big shocks. The first shock was that the Prime Minister was talking about the inflation rate and quoting old figures that are no longer true, saying that we have the lowest inflation rate among the countries in our area, which is simply not true,” former Prime Minister Janez …
The second item on the agenda of the 10th plenary session of the Constitutional Court was to consider the petition for a review of the constitutionality of the Act on Amendments and Additions to the Act on Radio-Television Slovenia, but the Constitutional Court judges did not adopt any decision at that time. And while we …
Special Operation Against Radio-Television Slovenia Read More »
Last Monday, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič herself, on behalf of the National Assembly, submitted a request to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia for the disqualification of a Constitutional Court judge, although she clearly had no legal interest in doing so. A few days later, the government also …
The extreme left wing of RTV journalists again put pressure on their colleagues yesterday. Among them was Tatjana Pirc, a member of the Strategic Council for the Prevention of Hate Speech, and Culture Minister Asta Vrečko came to help them “depoliticise”. “I am standing here unfortunately not because I do not know what is going …
How Minister Asta Vrečko exerted political pressure on RTV employees Read More »
In a short article that was presented in the section “Highlighted” (Izpostavljeno), the national media outlet RTV Slovenia presented a brief timeline and the key events that marked the process of developments and decision-making on the amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act. This was the first thing on Robert Golob’s list of priorities since the …
The Authorities’ Pressures On The Constitutional Court Keep On Coming Read More »
As we have previously reported, in an interview on the national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, the Prime Minister admitted to presenter Rosvita Pesek that the infamous and constitutionally controversial law on RTV Slovenia was written by the Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy (Pravna mreža za varstvo demokracije), a far-left NGO that was mainly …
