On Tuesday, the 3rd of May, the fourth nationwide pensioners’ rally was held in Ljubljana, where those gathered demanded that the President of the Republic replace her adviser on pensioners’ issues, Biserka Meden Marolt, and demanded that the government ensures higher pensions. In his address, Mr Rupar stressed that the protests would continue and that …
The government has adopted a bill that provides for pardons of offences committed during the severe Covid-19 epidemiological situation, with reimbursement of fines that have already been paid. The Minister of Justice, Dominika Švarc Pipan, and the Golob government are convinced that there was no adequate legal basis for the issuing of fines. The government …
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Members of the government’s Medical Ethics Committee unanimously oppose the proposal for a law on voluntary assisted dying, drafted by the Silver Thread Association for Ageing with Dignity (Društvo Srebrna nit). Members of the Committee believe that the bill brings with it a high ethical risk, according to an explanation of their position, sent to …
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“Without a farmer, there is no food!”; “Against restrictions on our own land”; “Let the beasts roam your backyards, not our pastures”; “Have you eaten today? Thank us”; “We will not be servants on our own land”; read just some of the banners seen at one of the biggest protests in the history of our …
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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 …
Recently, information has been circulating on social media that the police visited farms before the announced protest and asked how many farmers were planning to come to Ljubljana with tractors to participate in the protest. The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska Demokratska Stranka – SDS) Parliamentary Group considers this to be a disproportionate interference by the …
A shock for the pupils, a shock for the parents of the pupils. A transgender teacher, Lucienne-Beatrice Krstova, is doing an internship at a school in Maribor. Many outraged parents have turned against a transgender teacher who teaches at one of Maribor’s primary schools. One of them wrote: “He walks around the school with a …
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In recent days, the government has announced that it has tabled an amendment to the law abolishing supplementary health insurance. But then Robert Golob said that they want to freeze the prices of supplementary insurance with the tabled amendment, thus preventing insurance companies from making private profits, paediatrician Tina Bregant said at the beginning of …
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The Association for the Values of Slovenian Independence (Združenje za vrednote slovenske osamosvojitve – VSO) invites all patriotic and conscious Slovenians, all citizens, to a protest rally “FOR SLOVENIA AND THE TRUTH” – against the destruction of the foundations of Slovenian unity and statehood. The protest will take place on Wednesday, the 19th of April …
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National Assembly’s Commission for Public Office and Elections will propose to the National Assembly to reappoint State Prosecutor General Drago Šketa to the post he currently holds. At the joint meeting of the Commission and the Committee on Justice, he received ten votes in favour and five votes against. The MPs and the opposition Slovenian …
The former Minister of the Interior, Aleš Hojs, ordered a coffee in a Ljubljana café on Thursday morning. He was meeting with former US Ambassador to Slovenia, Joseph Mussomeli, with whom he has maintained good relations even after Mussomeli left Slovenia. Then, the former Interior Minister was recognised by a supposedly regular guest of the …
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During the election campaign, the President of the Republic, Nataša Pirc Musar, reproached her predecessor, Borut Pahor, for remaining silent on important topics too often, but now she herself, although she promised not to do it, has turned silent, too. When the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the largest international Jewish human rights organisations, wrote …
