One of the “key reforms” of the government of Robert Golob is the overhaul of the judicial system, but sharp criticism has been voiced by judges and members of the Judicial Council in light of it. The amendments to the so-called judicial troika – a package of laws on courts, judges, and the Judicial Council
Speaker of the National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič and representatives of the ruling coalition did not respond to an invitation to meet with a mission of the European People’s Party (EPP) political group, which came on a one-day visit to Slovenia on Monday, said the head of the mission, Tomas Tobé. “We are surprised by
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The European People’s Party (EPP) mission visited Slovenia on Monday to check on the state of the rule of law, democracy and the media. As we have previously reported, the authorities avoided a meeting with the Members of the European Parliament. But Peter Gregorčič, former President of the Programme Council of the national media outlet,
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“The prosecution proposed it and the court ruled in accordance with it. This information, which came from the top of the judiciary, proved to be accurate,” former judge Zvjezdan Radonjić commented on the verdict, which he says is a result of a deal. The Trial Chamber of the Celje District Court sentenced the former judge
During the term of the previous government of Janez Janša, the average outside observer could have concluded from the reactions of the European Commission, especially the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), and the European Commission’s infamous report on the rule of law, that Slovenia was sliding into a Russian-style autocracy. In
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During the term of the previous, Janez Janša government, we witnessed concerned visits by representatives of the European Union institutions, and many media outlets and journalists who were completely unknown to the Slovenian public were interested in what was happening here. But now that the news has broken about how the former Acting Director of
The President of the Supreme Court, Miodrag Đorđević, has once again come under the scrutiny of a critical public. This time for his statements made on Radio-Television Slovenia. The public was alarmed by his equation of judges with power. As some were quick to point out, judges are merely representatives of one branch of the
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“The Vice-President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, did not reply even by the deadline set by the European Ombudsman, thus formally entering into a dispute with yet another European Union institution,” Member of the European Parliament Milan Zver recently said. A few days ago, MEP Milan Zver received a reply to a complaint
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Former Slovenian Ambassador, Tone Kajzer, is not surprised that Slovenia continues to slide down the list of countries that respect the rule of law. He attributes this problem to several factors, one of which is people’s own responsibility. It is the people’s own fault that we have what we have, according to Supreme Court Judge
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At Tuesday’s inaugural meeting of the State Prosecutorial Council, the Supreme State Prosecutor Harij Furlan was elected as the new President and former Prosecutor-General Zvonko Fišer as the new Vice-President, the State Prosecutorial Council announced after the meeting. The six-year term of office of the current members of the Council expired on Monday. The rule
The government of Robert Golob is set to change the Constitution. If adopted, the proposed amendments would transfer the power to appoint judges from the National Assembly to the President of the Republic, as proposed by the Judicial Council. Not only that but the composition of the Judicial Council is also set to change. Following
On Friday, the Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly held an urgent meeting on the appointment of judges. As the leader of the opposition pointed out, the government is in a hurry to cement the 100-percent monopoly of the transitional left in the judiciary, and it is being aided and abetted by the New Slovenia