Slovenia has the capacity to accommodate between 180,000 and 200,000 refugees from Ukraine, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs said on Sunday. “At least this is what we have discussed in the past few days,” he told the press after an informal session of the EU’s interior ministers on Sunday. Hojs noted that the figure is based
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Foreign Minister Anže Logar signed decrees revoking the credentials of all Russian honorary consuls in Slovenia. “Russia no longer has honorary consuls in Slovenia,” he announced on Twitter. The move comes a day after Logar urged all Russian honorary consuls in Slovenia – the ministry website lists five – to step down from their roles.
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The most suitable candidate for the position of Prime Minister is Janez Janša, according to a February public opinion poll conducted for Nova24TV by the Parsifal Agency. Namely, 20.3 percent of respondents believe that the current Prime Minister is the most suitable person to lead our country for another term, while only half as many
The extraordinary adjustment of pensions has made lots of retirees very happy, as did the solidarity allowance paid to mitigate the consequences of Covid-19 and the announced energy solidarity allowance, which is expected to be paid by the 15th of April 2022. Janez Sušnik, the President of the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, has pointed
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With the onset of the economic and financial crisis, social justice in the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has deteriorated on average, while the social justice index has shown a slight but ongoing upward trend since the economic recovery began in 2014. While the social imbalances in the EU
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Slovenian athletes won seven medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which puts the country second only to Norway in medals per capita. Overall, Slovenia ranks 15th among all countries on the Olympic medal table. Team Slovenia won two golds, three silvers and two bronze medals, four of which in ski jumping, two in snowboarding
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The largest conservative parties in Europe have just reached an agreement that may soon manifest itself in a political alliance in the European Parliament. But can this principled opposition go as far as the fundamental reform that the European institutions so desperately need, ask David Engels, a professor at the Free University of Brussels and
Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a memorandum of understanding on sustainable development and food systems as Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek held talks with Emirati Environment and Climate Change Minister Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri. Podgoršek said the two countries would “develop cooperation in sustainable rural development, sustainable food production, food safety,
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In recent years in Slovenia, we have witnessed the ease with which some people call others “fascists.” Professor Stanković from the Faculty of Social Sciences recently called Slovenian folk music “fascistoid” on the radio programme Val 202. In his column in the Mladina magazine, another professor from the same faculty, Vlado Miheljak, came to Stanković’s
Slovenia and Hungary are becoming more than neighbours: we are building a modern friendship. On a regular basis, our Prime Ministers, Viktor Orbán and Janez Janša meet. Your Minister Janez Cigler Kralj was the guest of my Minister Katalin Novák – for the Budapest Demographic Summit. Our relationship is starting to grow at the
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The Republic of Slovenia, rated A3 / AA- / A (all stable), has mandated Barclays, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and J.P. Morgan to lead manage a EUR dual-tranche transaction consisting of a new 4-year benchmark due 2026 and 40-year benchmark due 2062. The transaction will be Regulation S in
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On the 24th of December 2021, the Kranj District Prosecutor dismissed the criminal complaint against the president of the Resni.ca (the Truth) party, Zoran Stevanović, who was accused of inciting the uprisings. According to the Slovenian Press Agency, three people were detained on the 5th of October 2021, on suspicion of committing a crime, at
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