Out of a total of 533,292 pension recipients, around 309,000 pensioners, or 58 percent of the total, receive a pension below the poverty line. As many as 51,889 pensioners receive a pension of less than 500 euros a month. The hardship is growing, with the coalition taking 60 percent of one month’s pension from each …
Just before the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Golob government announced something it does really well: it announced a new tax. This time, on residential property. The starting points for a tax on residential property have been prepared and will be open to public discussion by the end of January. While the government is …
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The Slovenian public is currently following two active cases of suspected corruption in the healthcare sector. An investigation into alleged overpayments for the servicing of medical equipment is ongoing at the Ljubljana University Medical Centre. Additionally, in the case of this year’s tenders for the purchase of Type C ambulances, it is suspected that the …
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Taxing “surplus” housing at 1.45 percent, which is the intention of those in power as they enter their last year in office, is progress. So far, they have already increased payroll taxation by abolishing income tax allowances and the more favourable scales of the previous government, they have enacted a contribution for the elderly that …
Slovenian politicians are officially on the side of the European Union, the global West and NATO when it comes to Russia and its war of conquest in Ukraine. But that is true only on the surface. Slovenian politicians are otherwise very reconciliatory with the Kremlin. Not only the “peacemakers” Türk and Kučan, even current politicians …
On Thursday, the 26th of December, we celebrated the Independence and Unity Day, which marks the 34th anniversary of the plebiscite in which Slovenians voted for an independent state. This was a historic milestone when the longing for our own country began to be realised. The plebiscite was held on the 23rd of December 1990, …
The tough legislation on the “culture of chastity and hijab” adopted in Iran in December, which imposes harsh penalties, including up to 15 years in prison and even the death penalty, has rightly been upsetting the public. As the legislation is expected to come into force in the coming days, one would have expected a …
“We have lunatics in power who cannot be stopped – except by taking to the streets. Down with the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda)!” urged influencer Karin Planinšek. In a new video, the influencer and political commentator Karin Planinšek asks whether we are actually aware of the serious problems we are currently facing in the country. …
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This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore) …
Thursday’s meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly focused on Slovenia’s “miscarriage of justice”. MPs of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska straka – SDS) expressed their disagreement with the conduct of the Slovenian judicial system, which often acts unjustly, with many cases ending up before the European Court of Human Rights. …
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In the latest issue of the Demokracija magazine (“Democracy”), we took a closer look at the recent promotional “coffee meet-up” of Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković, Prime Minister Robert Golob, and the last leader of the Communist Party of Slovenia and first President of the Republic of Slovenia Milan Kučan at the Ljubljana market. By meeting …
In the early hours of Friday morning, Satko Zovko (formerly Kekić) was killed in a mafia confrontation on the outskirts of Ljubljana. Initial media reports that the murder victim was a protected witness in Slovenia were quickly denied by the police. Former Interior Minister Hojs believes that we are witnessing a “complete breakdown of the …
