The Golob government started to take stock of the prices of basic food items in September last year, and publish them on its website. What we can see from the data on this website is that the average price of a basket of basic foods, as monitored by the price comparison programme of the Ministry
On the 31st of January, the Act Amending the Family Code came into force – an act that not only changes the definition of marriage as we have known it thus far and with which we grew up, but also destroys the fundamental value of the family with its provisions; destroys the importance of women
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“The investigation is still ongoing, there are two foreign citizens being investigated, who are accused of espionage, and this is a very serious matter that we are following very closely,” Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon commented on the affair, who, despite the seriousness of the matter, does not intend to call the Russian ambassador to a
“Odlazek, Petrič and Petan, through their journalists and media outlets, are pressuring the Golob government to provide them with more taxpayers’ money to finance their failing business models under the guise of helping the “credible printed media,” which they themselves have financially depleted over the past years,” warned journalist Bojan Požar. The crisis of printed
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The Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency (Slovenska obveščevalno-varnostna služba – SOVA) has allegedly arrested two Russian spies, and the National Bureau of Investigation (Nacionalna preiskovalna agencija – NPU) is also said to be involved in the prosecution, according to the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – STA). The two foreign nationals were accused of
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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