The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has significantly raised its forecast for this year’s economic growth for Slovenia. For this year, the forecast has risen by 2.4 percentage points – to 6.3 percent. In May, the IMF predicted a 4.5 percent growth of GDP for our country for next year; however, in a report published on …
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar yesterday hosted Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bisera Turković on a working visit to Slovenia. Their discussion focused on bilateral cooperation in various areas, particularly the economy, and on Slovenia’s support for the European perspective of Bosnia and …
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On Saturday, a regional meeting of members and sympathisers of the SDS party happened in Marezige. However, even before the meeting happened, the “Friday Cyclists” and Barbara Verdnik also wrote about it on Facebook, announcing a protest rally and roadblocks on all roads that allow access to this Istrian settlement in the Northern part of …
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Janez Janša hosted an informal working dinner at Brdo pri Kranju. Practically all the important names of the European political summit were among the guests – from Angela Merkel to Sebastian Kurz, Stefan Löfven, and Charles Michel, who chairs the EU-Western Balkans Summit. On Wednesday, the leaders of the EU Member …
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“Due to endangerment of public order and the obstruction of traffic, which resulted in a dangerous situation, you are being arrested; please come with me and follow my orders,” a police officer explained the reasons for his arrest to rapper Zlatan Čordić – Zlatko. At Tuesday’s protest, the police were also forced to use the …
Yesterday the Prime Minister hosted an informal working dinner at Brdo pri Kranju for the heads of state and governments of the EU member states. The European leaders held a strategic discussion on the role of the EU on the international stage in view of recent events in Afghanistan, the AUKUS security alliance and the …
Tuesday marked the beginning of one of the most important events of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. On Tuesday, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, hosted an informal dinner for members of the European Council, and on Wednesday, the 6th of October 2021, a summit of …
“The parallel economic system was not just about the export of capital, stealing of social property, theft of labour and so on; it was also a system that allowed the party to stay in power. And whenever the system started having trouble, this parallel mechanism turned on, and capital poured in. And when the system …
Online commentators are surprised by the police’s attitude towards the extreme left participants in the unreported counter-protest against the March for Life. Comparisons have also been made regarding the police’s reaction in the case of removal of the Yellow Jackets from the unreported anti-government protest of the left-wing political cyclists and the (non)reaction of the …
On Wednesday, we once again witnessed an unregistered rally; however, it is well known that the president of the Resni.ca party (the Truth party), Zoran Stevanović, was actively inviting people on social media to join him at the protest. The protesters, some of them children, wreaked real havoc this time, as they took to the …
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia published data that shows that the government’s consolidated gross debt at the end of the second quarter of this year was estimated at 80 percent of GDP. Debt in Slovenia is lower than the average within the euro area and is expected to decrease further in the …
The government adopted a decree on Sunday, raising the lump sum which municipalities receive per resident from the state and which represents one of the main sources of local government funding. In 2022 the sum will rise from EUR 628 to EUR 645 and to EUR 647 in 2023, the Public Administration Ministry said. The …
