“Brussels’ interference can be a double-edged sword. The success of the European intervention is questionable, especially if it would foster the feeling in Slovenian politics that the EU is not part of the solution, but part of the problem,” the “independent” and “transparent” newspaper Delo (work) wrote on Sunday, as they are worried about various …
“It is high time for Slovenian high schoolers to start writing graffiti everywhere, in public and non-public places, that say: LIBERATION FRONT 2.0, and then live in accordance with this, too! The clerical fascism of the corrupt Janez Janša, with the support of the Catholic Church, is trying to deprive them of their personal, professional …
“With the judgement of the District Judge Vlasta Lajlar in the criminal case against the accused Luka Štitić for the criminal offence of threatening, under the first paragraph of Article 135 of the Criminal Code (Kazenski zakonik – KZ-1), following the indictment by the District Court in Celje (…) on the 18th of January (…), …
At Friday’s press conference, Minister of Health Janez Poklukar said that Slovenia has confirmed the first case of the South African coronavirus variant, detected in the Maribor area in a person who has returned from Africa. The Epidemiological Service traced all high-risk contacts and sent them into quarantine. The Minister also said that, as a …
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Slovenian Deputy Prime Ministers Zdravko Počivalšek and Matej Tonin also expressed their support for an independent media investigation in Slovenia. “I second the call for action. If Brussels only has the (dis)information from one side, they cannot have a complete picture of the situation,” Počivalšek wrote, and Matej Tonin reminded everyone that “it is only …
In her note entitled “Hate as a political method”, SDS MP Eva Irgl reminded of a text about hate speech she had written eight years ago, noting with sadness that “in all these years, even my efforts and warnings in this area, nothing has changed in the minds of many.” As she pointed out years ago, the …
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“We do not need hostility and “war” in Slovenia. What we need is a responsible government, a constructive opposition and a plural and fair media landscape. Not one where the media from the right is described as the “factory of evil” and those from the opposite side are described, on a daily basis, as credible, …
The current opposition, which has been in power for 23 years after 1990, commissions articles about its martyrdom in foreign media outlets. I have been following the controversy surrounding the article “Inside Slovenia’s war on the media,” written by journalist Lili Bayer for the POLITICOEurope web portal, with great interest. I have been following the …
In addition to all of the other acknowledgements, Slovenia also received international recognition for being one of the healthiest countries in the world. While the country ranks 11th among the healthiest countries, Ljubljana ranks as high as 9th among the healthiest cities to live in. The web portal money.co.uk has put together a list of …
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At the session regarding the decision of the no confidence vote against the government, Alenka Bratušek was very loud about the government’s fault for spreading infections. She claimed that no one could accuse her and her party of anything, but then in the following days she discredited this claim herself when she was caught without …
Death threats have become a constant, both on Slovenian streets and in the parliament. The media is silent, the prosecution is winking at the truth, no one is taking action. But when Prime Minister Janez Janša innocently jokes, a wave of criticism pours on him from all sides. How did we get to this point, to …
Dear Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Values and Transparency, you recently mentioned Slovenia again in an online interview for the Presseclub Concordia, saying that critical journalists are allegedly intimidated. As reported by the 24ur portal (HERE), you also said: “When the media are in trouble, our democracies are also …
