Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the first meeting of the Strategic Council for Digitalisation on 23. April. At the meeting, the members of the Strategic Council for Digitalisation spoke about the goals of the Council, the timeline and the organisation of the work. They also presented some content-related proposals. In his opening address, Prime Minister
Constitutional judge Klemen Jaklič spoke for Radio Ognjišče about his separate opinions on the anti-corona decisions we have witnessed recently. Initially, the judge touched on one of the most pressing topics in recent times, namely the latest decision of the constitutional court, which withheld the restriction of rallies due to a pandemic. He announced that separate opinions
A joint letter of Slovenian Foreign Minister Anže Logar and his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva has been published in today’s edition of the Delo newspaper, in which they discuss the objectives of their countries’ EU Council Presidencies. The entire letter is available below. In a crisis we need European cohesion – continuity and a smooth
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“I hope that the era of Janšaism will one day be nothing more than a bitter memory, but until then, take care of yourself… Everyone can think what they want to think, but I much prefer this kind of rhetoric over Beović, Krek, Bregant, Kacin, and the great dictator Janša.” These are two statements that
Data on unemployment in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) show that unemployment in Slovenia is far below the European average. According to the survey unemployment indicator, Slovenia is among the seven best EU member states with 4.9 percent, where the average is 7.5 percent and the highest rate is 16.1 percent.
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Leader of the Social Democrats, Tanja Fajon, has responded to the letter that was sent to her by the Chairman of the European Jewish Association, Menachem Margolin, calling on the party to return the building where they have their headquarters, to the Slovenian Jewish community. Fajon invited the rabbi to a meeting where they would
On Friday, the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šefik Džaferović, spoke to the Prime Minister Janez Janša on the phone, after the latter called Džaferović and informed him that there is no non-paper that could be linked to the Slovenian government and would include border changes or undermining of the territorial
“If it is war they want, they can have it. However, the key moment in a war is the attack. And since they are not succeeding at home, they are trying to portray everything as if it is upsetting the foreign countries. We need to fight back in the same way. Why not flood Tanja
The Levica party (the Left) is not resting, but it also does not want to work with the government in overcoming the covid-19 crisis. Quite the contrary – their MP Nataša Sukič is calling for people to join her at the Friday protests on bicycles that are happening all over Slovenia – even amid the
In the largest public opinion poll, called Consultation with the Voters, which was conducted by the SDS party, as many as 61 percent of the respondents said that the reporting of RTV Slovenia, POP TV and Kanal A contributed to the spread of the epidemic, and only ten percent of the respondents believe that the
“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
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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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