“For the Minister of Culture to go on strike along with the Radio-Television Slovenia staff is something that no minister in the UK, Australia or the US would ever dare to do,” Nina Kojima, a former and current correspondent from London for the national media outlet RTV, who has returned to journalism after five years, …
An RTV Correspondent From London On The Russophilia Of Slovenian Politics And RTV Read More »
Slovenia appears to have joined a group of European Union Member States, led by Germany, which are advocating for the strengthening of qualified majority voting in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, arguing that this would contribute to making the EU a more effective global actor. Given that this type of decision-making also contributes …
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Reporters Without Borders (a far-left association of international journalists) reports that Slovenia is ranked 50th on the World Press Freedom Index. Meanwhile, the Baltic countries (once part of the Soviet Union) rank very high, just behind the developed European democracies. What is wrong with the Slovenian media landscape, and what can we learn from the …
Why Is Slovenia Still So Low On The Press Freedom Index? Read More »
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 …
Ethics Committee Strongly Opposes The Option Of Euthanasia Read More »
“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 …
Farmers, Christians And Entrepreneurs Are Still The Class Enemies Read More »
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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