Rumours about the political future of the Minister of Cohesion and Regional Development, Aleksander Jevšek, have once again started circulating in the media. As we reported a few days ago, he is likely to continue his political career as the Ambassador in Sarajevo. We reported last week that Minister Aleksander Jevšek would travel to Sarajevo …
Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) has requested that a joint urgent meeting of the Committee on Foreign Policy and the Commission for Public Finance Control be convened to discuss suspicions of controversial money transfers from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to the Centre for International Cooperation and Development (CSMR), which …
Recently, we have seen an increasing number of indications that we are heading towards the break-up or even the end of the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD). The party’s “boat” is sinking because of an affair that started in the Ministry of Justice. A month or so after it broke, the names of …
The controversial purchase of a new court building by the Minister of Justice has also sparked a public debate regarding the Social Democrats party’s real estate empire. The party has recently moved into new luxury premises in the centre of Ljubljana, where it is supposed to have a kind of “co-decision room”. Real estate of …
A family quarrel seems to have broken out in the government ranks. The Social Democrats (Socialni Demokrati – SD) and the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) have apparently decided to air their dirty laundry in public – through the “independent media.” The story of the controversial trip of Minister Sanja Ajanović Hovnik (Freedom Movement) to …
Bosnian and Herzegovinian law enforcement authorities have arrested Mitja Kontič on suspicion of cocaine smuggling. Mitja is the son of the late Bojan Kontič – a long-serving Member of Parliament from the ranks of the Social Democratc (Socialni demokrati – SD) and former Mayor of Velenje. A small amount of cocaine, a gun and 18 …
The Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) support Keber’s Cuban model of healthcare, where all decision-making and financing centres for healthcare are concentrated in a single point managed by the state. This is a model of state-run, not public, healthcare. And it is precisely this model – which the left-wing governments have been advocating all …
The Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) are a party of promises. In all of the years that they have been part of left-wing coalitions, they have promised us decent wages, pensions, long-term care, an end to poverty and a healthcare system where no one is left behind – and they promised this before every …
On Wednesday on Radio-Television Slovenia, all seven candidates for the position of the President of the Republic of Slovenia faced each other in a debate. They discussed wealth, their attitudes to taxes, ideological differences, values and scandals. The “star” of the debate was certainly Milan Brglez, who got caught up in his own explanations, stuttered, …
“We keep talking about the war in Ukraine, but we dare not point the finger at the main culprits – the USA and NATO!” is what we heard at the recent congress of the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD). This scandalous statement calls into question the truthfulness of the commitment of the Social …
After the verdict of the Celje court on the Moskovič villa, the European court could have the opportunity to rule on the return of Jewish property confiscated under the Nazi or communist dictatorship. Forced sale as robbery. Slovenia is a signatory of the Terezin Declaration on the restitution of Jewish property,” commented lawyer and historian Marko …
The start of the new school year is just two weeks away. Before the April elections, the Social Democrats party (SD) promised us free school meals and free kindergarten, a rise in minimum wage and pensions, 10,000 public rental flats and a mere 30-day wait period to get to a medical specialist. These were their …
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