A harsh open letter against the government’s behaviour has been signed by 79 intellectuals. They had decided to send the letter because the government continued its series of political purges of personnel from companies and the media with the recent early dismissal of the current director of the Museum of Contemporary History, Jože Dežman, and …
The Consultation of Slovenian Diplomats continued on Wednesday at Brdo pri Kranju. The aim was to outline the guidelines for the work of the Ministry, which will now be called the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. The diplomats were presented with a renewed foreign policy strategy, which had already been criticised at the first …
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On Sunday afternoon, police officers visited Roman Vodeb to take his statement. “The police came to tell me ex officio that Urška Klakočar Zupančič is bothered by some of the things I have been saying.” Namely, the Speaker of the National Assembly filed a police report against Vodeb, and a report with the Agency for …
The Ljubljana Pride Association (Društvo Parada ponosa) is exerting pressure on the Ministry of Education to participate in its project called “Transcending the Culture of Humiliation.” The Association has pointed out that “peer-to-peer violence is becoming an increasingly acute problem in schools.” They also believe that the school environment is the second most dangerous for …
The government prevented an extraordinary adjustment of pensions before the New Year, while the pensioners are increasingly worried about the rising prices. This has provoked, among other things, a nationwide protest of the pensioners, which will take place on the 1st of February in Ljubljana. The organiser of the protest is the civil initiative The …
Eva Irgl, Chair of the Commission on Petitions, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities, has called an urgent meeting of the Commission in view of the chaotic and dangerous situation in the healthcare sector. Among others, Minister of Health Bešič Loredna and Ljubljana Mayor Janković, who have been filling the headlines in recent days with their …
At the beginning of the year, Slovenia experienced the largest nominal jump in the minimum wage in this millennium. According to the predictions of Minister Luka Mesec, it will already increase by around 100 euros net in January. Employers are worried. “This will be a huge additional burden on businesses,” they said. In the first half of …
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“Our plan is to build 30 thousand public rental apartments, with the financing coming from different sources: some from taxes, some from the state budget, some with a state bond for Slovenian savers in the banks,” were the words of Luka Mesec at the pre-election debate on the 12th of April 2022. A few months …
At a press conference on Tuesday, the head of the parliamentary group of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), MP Jelka Godec, presented the SDS party’s request to convene an extraordinary session of the National Assembly on the catastrophic situation in the healthcare sector. “Unlike the coalition and Prime Minister Robert Golob, …
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“As an entrepreneur, I find this unacceptable because no country in the European Union is raising taxes in the current situation, so Slovenia is the exception when it comes to the existing policies of the EU countries,” Slovenian entrepreneur Dušan Šešok, owner of the Iskra Group, told the Poslovni Dnevnik media outlet. Namely, due to …
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On the show “Aktualno” (Current Events), Aleksander Rant, Boris Tomašič, Jože Biščak and Metod Berlec commented on the events of the last week and also made some predictions about what might happen in 2023. They discussed the economy, healthcare, the “depoliticisation” of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, the police, and also the degradation of …
“I froze in fear,” the victim of police violence described the moments when police officers – as described by the witnesses of the incident – came at him like animals. “One of the enforcers picked up a baton, another one stood guard, they knocked my legs out from under me, and six heavy policemen picked …
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