“The last time I met the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, was last year. It would be quite difficult for me to physically hand over anything to him in February or March of this year, as the obscure web portal you cite writes. Slovenia is very serious in trying to find solutions for …
Yesterday’s press conference on the current situation regarding COVID-19 was attended by Mateja Logar, the Head of the Advisory Group of the Ministry of Health, and Tomaž Vovko, specialist in infectiology and intensive care medicine. A total of 1,484 PCR tests were carried out on Sunday, of which 287 were positive, amounting to 19.3 per …
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The government adopted a draft decree at a correspondence session on Monday saying that a referendum on the changes to the 2021 and 2022 budgets implementation act to allow for long-term financing of investments in the Slovenian Armed Forces would be inadmissible. The Finance Ministry argued in a press release after the government session that …
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Threats and verbal attacks on journalist Bojan Požar continue. However, the left-wing media are paying no attention to this. Taxi drivers and the like have really gone crazy. The threats against journalist Bojan Požar continue, and the journalist has “dedicated” his third article to the taxi drivers and their machinations related to the upcoming arrival …
Ever since the failed no-confidence vote against the government with the proposed candidate for prime minister, Karl Erjavec, it has been possible to hear how the country is supposed to have problems with media freedom and respect for the rule of law. As a whole bunch of untruths are circulating outside Slovenia, especially in Brussels, at …
After the Minister of Infrastructure Jernej Vrtovec announced legislation that will regulate and modernise the existing taxi services, which includes making the business transactions between providers and customers easier, there has been a growing demand for the arrival of providers such as Uber. Of course, this is not surprising, as such services allow users cheaper …
The speakers at today’s press conference on the current COVID-19 situation were State Secretary Jelko Kacin, National Logistics Coordinator for the Mass Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19, and Tatjana Lejko Zupanc, Head of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Fever Conditions at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana. On Easter Monday, 273 out of 1,879 PCR tests …
More than 347,000 vaccine doses to be supplied in April Read More »
When I saw a report on Slovenia in the evening programme of the German First Television, ARD, I first thought that they had simply summarized the news from some article from one of the German newspaper – Der Spiegel, Südeutsche Zeitung or Die Welt. But then, I was surprised by an ARD journalist living in …
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“The history of the National Liberation Movement does not know of any official establishment of the Liberation Front (Osvobodilna fronta – referred to as the OF). The anti-fascist front was not established either because it already existed before the disintegration of Yugoslavia. This date was chosen with manipulative intentions, Kidrič needed a date of its …
“BBZ’s narrative and conclusions, for example, though impossible to prove right or wrong in terms they are phrased, are welcome, given that they frankly and in a nutshell expose fears and hopes of the Slovenian vanishing post-communist left. The vanishing part hopefully leaving behind its present left, liberal or right elements for novel development – …
The registered jobless total was down for the second consecutive month in March, standing at 82,638, or 6.1% less than in February. The number is nevertheless 6.1% higher than the number of registered unemployed persons in Slovenia in the same month last year. A total of 4,569 jobless registered with the Employment Service anew in …
Director of the Government Communication Office (Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za komuniciranje – referred to as UKOM) congratulated his journalistic colleague on Twitter, as she was elected president of the Slovenian Union of Journalists. However, the union clearly positioned itself against UKOM when it called on the government to immediately fulfil its financial obligations to …
