“Today, as a member of the State Election Commission, I submitted a proposal for the dismissal of the Director of the commission, Dušan Vučko. Too many matters remain unexplained,” Drago Zadergal, a member of the State Election Commission, wrote on Twitter. As he explained, he submitted the proposal for a dismissal due to “negligent, improper …
Slovenia remains attractive for German companies, mainly due to its geostrategic location and skilled workforce, shows this year’s survey of German chambers of commerce in 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, criticism is levelled at Slovenia’s rigid labour legislation and high labour costs. the Slovenian-German Chamber of Commerce’s president Dagmar von Bohnstein said …
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“The development of publicly funded scientific research, which has strong support in local communities and the economy in South-Eastern Slovenia, is a very important piece in the mosaic of development breakthroughs. An attempt to prevent the financing of this activity and to stop investing in equipment for this new institute is also an attempt to …
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The personnel moves of the new Prime Minister Robert Golob are causing quite a stir. One of his most controversial decisions was the appointment of the Secretary of State for National Security. Žan Mahnič has been replaced by the Russophile Andrej Benedejčič at a time when we are witnessing Russian aggression against Ukraine. On top …
“The European Union needs to hear about these shameful ‘death lists.’ These are not professional politicians. This government is targeting ordinary officials,” political analyst Mitja Iršič criticised the latest move of Golob’s government, which decided to not only remove the top civil servants, but ordinary officials as well. Before entering politics, the long-serving President of …
The case of the Gen-I energy company financing likeable journalists at the expense of the state, which was revealed by the media outlet Požareport in March, has still not had an epilogue. After Golob’s company Gen-I refused to publicly reveal the contract it has with a company which was run by journalist Vesna Vuković from …
The outlook for employment in the second half of the year is positive, as employers have forecast a 3.2% increase in the number of employees, the highest growth since 2014, and plan around 43,000 jobs. On the other hand, discrepancies in the labour market are increasing and employers are finding it difficult to find staff. …
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The police dealt with the fewest criminal offences in the last ten years in 2021, 44,260, which compares to the ten-year average of 67,490. At the same time, the highest clearance rate in the last decade was recorded at 55%, significantly above the ten-year average of 49%, shows the 2021 report on police work. They …
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The organisations and individuals that have recently expressed their support for the strike of the coordinated journalists’ unions of the national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, were the Trade Union of Slovenian Police Officers, the President of the Confederation of Public Administration Trade Unions, Branimir Štrukelj, and some others – and on Wednesday, the Union of …
“Therefore, it is even more important that the initiative to review the constitutionality of Vizjak’s law was submitted by the company Interseroh, and not, for example, Odlazek’s company Recikel. Thus, they achieved at least two things: they hid ties between the interest groups related to the Čeferin family of lawyers, which is extremely important since …
The outgoing government on Tuesday took a decision for monkeypox to be included in a group of infectious diseases under which all healthcare providers are required to report any new cases to competent authorities. Following the first confirmed monkeypox case in Slovenia, the move seeks to provide a legal basis to introduce a protocol for …
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Slovenian police dealt with 3,107 cases of illegal migration in the first four months of this year, up nearly 86% on the same period last year. Afghan citizens accounted for more than a quarter of all the illegal migrants intercepted from January through April, fresh police data shows. For the first time Cuba ranks among …
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