The Strategic Council for the Prevention of Hate Speech has presented new recommendations to tackle hate speech at a press conference on Wednesday. The recommendations, which are about the media and social media, go as far as to suggest an intention to censor. This part of the measures was presented at the press conference by …
During his recent visit to Croatia, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob pompously announced the withdrawal of the arbitration issue from the political agenda. The mainstream media reported on the foreign policy reversal, as Slovenia’s policy so far has been to insist on the enforcement of the arbitration ruling. At the same time, Golob claims that …
International Lawyer Reveals Why Golob Had To Give In To Plenković Read More »
In the days when floods devastated Slovenian towns and cities, especially Cerkno, the government renounced part of the EU funding for flood protection. Golob decided that he would rather spend the money from the state budget on this, using the excuse that he needs more time to bring projects in line with environmental standards. This …
Golob Gave Up EU Funding For Flood Protection – At The Time Of Floods Read More »
Slovenian police officers dealt with 15,456 illegal crossings of the Slovenian border in the first five months of the year, which is three times more than in the same period last year when they detained 5,108 people who illegally crossed the border. The data for June or the first half of the year are not …
The Influx Of Migrants At The Southern Slovenian Border Is Intensifying Read More »
On Tuesday, the world marked the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. At exactly noon, sirens sounded in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing that began when Bosnian Serb troops invaded Srebrenica, a supposedly protected town, on the fateful 11th of July. The memory of the crime and tragedy …
The payment of the 8,346 euros of prize money that Svetlana Makarović gave up decades ago because she did not want to be on stage with Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik, who won the prize for his mosaic in the Pope’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel at the Vatican, is still causing quite a stir. Namely, the fact …
Will Minister Asta Vrečko Face Jail Time For Paying The Award To Svetlana Makarovič? Read More »
A look into the future shows rough sailing ahead. With all that is happening in Slovenia and beyond, we are looking at anything but stability and growing prosperity in the months and years ahead. Predictions of actions at such a time are risky, but one thing is indisputable: the more of us there are, the …
On Saturday’s ultra-leftists march through Ljubljana, two policemen were thrown to the ground and beaten by the wild protesters. The latter also spray-painted a bus and two police cars. Around 400 people attended an extreme event in Ljubljana on Saturday – the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair. Police officers monitored the event from 4 p.m. onwards. …
Two Police Officers Were Beaten By Far-Leftists In Ljubljana Read More »
“In the now-former Minister’s tenure of just over a year, we saw a number of promises to improve the patients’ access to healthcare services and the working conditions for healthcare professionals. These promises gave us hope for a modernisation of the public healthcare system, following the example of other European countries. Now we are back …
We have known for a very long time that the European Commission is a political body. We found this out during the Janez Janša government, when we were astonished to discover that serious European politicians were faithfully and unchecked writing down and repeating the arguments of Slovenian political far-leftists and media activists in the European …
The European Commission Report Was Discussed In The Hotbed Of Left-Wing Activism Read More »
Even though fossil fuel prices have returned to pre-war levels since the start of the war in Ukraine, fuel prices in Slovenia are slowly but steadily rising. The reason? The government is raising excise duties, and the so-called “ecological” duties have also been back in the fuel price calculations for some time now. As of …
The Government Has Increased The Prices Of Motor Fuels For The Fifth Time In A Row Read More »
The latest edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent countries and territories according to their level of peacefulness, finds in a new report that Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world since 2008, while Afghanistan is the least peaceful. Slovenia is ranked 8th, down four places from a year …
After One Year Of The Golob Government, Slovenia Is A Less Safe Country Than Before Read More »
