2TDK, the state-owned company managing the project of the new railway line between the port of Koper and the Divača hub, has downgraded the estimated costs of the project by almost 7% to EUR 1.126 billion. The previous investment programme from January 2019, which was not upgraded, the estimated costs were EUR 1.194 billion, the …
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The government has decided to extend the state of epidemic by another 30 days effective as of 18 March. The government also adopted the Ordinance amending the Ordinance determining the conditions for entry into the Republic of Slovenia for the purpose of containment and control of the COVID-19 infectious disease. The epidemic is still spreading …
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“This is true liberty: when free-born men having to advise the public may speak free. What can be juster in a state than this?” John Milton wrote sometime around 1644. But unfortunately, we know that free media, especially nowadays, is a kind of utopia. However, we should, in the role of the nation’s reason, memory …
“Ever since @STA_novice has been run by director Veselinović, sick journalists have been fired and lies have been often sold for the truth. It is time for the director, as a political tool of the far left, to step down and be held accountable for his illegal actions. And enable STA a normal work and …
Prior to the debate in the European Parliament (March 10), the International Press Institute (IPI), together with 18 other organizations (including the Slovenian Journalists’ Association), wrote to MEPs (HERE). Jože Biščak (editor of the magazine Demokracija and president of the Slovenian Association of Patriotic Journalists) and Vinko Vasle (a long-time journalist and former director of …
The American non-governmental organisation Freedom House has reissued a report on the level of freedom in the countries of the world. While it points out that for the 15th year in a row, there has been a decline in the level of freedom around the world, the data are extremely favourable for Slovenia. Namely, Slovenia …
Slovenia has one of the highest shares of women in the military in NATO, at 16.7%, the Defence Ministry said. The share of women in the Armed Forces has been one of the highest among NATO members in the past decade. In terms of missions abroad, the representation of women has varied between 7% and …
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After cases of the UK, South Africa and Nigeria variants of coronavirus have been confirmed in Slovenia, a variant first detected in Brazil has now been confirmed as well. “The variant has been detected in the Maribor area, for the time being in three persons within a family with a negative epidemiological anamnesis,” Mateja Logar, …
“It is really great that today’s meeting of Sophie in’t Veld’s group was publicly broadcast. That was not how it was intended at first. But since it was publicly broadcast, it was not possible to hide the complete ignorance of the European bureaucrats about what was happening in Slovenia. They really have no idea,” said …
Odbor 2015 (Committee 2015) issued a press release, in which it polemised and criticised the response of the Slovenian Association of State Prosecutors. In the message, members of Odbor 2015 pointed out that they are surprised by the response of the association, which informed the Council of Europe about numerous “inadmissible” pressures on state prosecutors …
We recently found out that the European Parliament has prepared an in-depth analysis of the state of the democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Slovenia. This is especially important in light of the exportation of fake news to foreign media, which are then brought back to Slovenia, and for finding ways for …
Director of the Slovenian press Agency, Bojan Veselinovič, does not dare face the director of the Government Communication Office, Uroš Urbanija, on the television screen. “Today, I was invited on the show Topic of the Day (Tema dneva) on Nova24TV to talk about the Slovenian Press Agency. Just like last time, with the show Odmevi …
