When Tanja Fajon said that foreign policy would now be “feminist” at the beginning of her term as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, we could not help but wonder what that meant. Almost two years later, we know exactly what it means. It is Tito’s policy of non-alignment, where the real friends are those …
Fajon Has Brought Slovenian Foreign Policy Firmly Into The Grip Of The Axis Of Evil Read More »
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Tanja Fajon said that Slovenia is not yet in a position to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but that it will participate in the ICJ proceedings on alleged Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories, which were initiated on the basis of …
Dr Pogačnik: Slovenia Has Joined The Group Of Failing Countries Read More »
“Fajon’s statement is not a surprise, it just needs to be understood in the context of the politics from which the current Foreign Minister comes. A person who bows down to the statue of Boris Kidrič is also bowing to the ideology of Titoist Yugoslavia, which has always been anti-Israel,” believes university professor and political …
Boštjan M. Turk: Fajon Is Reviving The Position Of The Non-Aligned Yugoslavia Read More »
As violence escalates in the West Bank and some major European Union members call for sanctions against Hamas, our Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Tanja Fajon, is fighting back against the Israelis. As the Slovenian Press Agency reports, she is campaigning for a ban on EU visas for Israeli settlers living in the Palestinian …
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon In Favour Of Sanctions Against Israelis, Not Hamas Read More »
A family quarrel seems to have broken out in the government ranks. The Social Democrats (Socialni Demokrati – SD) and the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) have apparently decided to air their dirty laundry in public – through the “independent media.” The story of the controversial trip of Minister Sanja Ajanović Hovnik (Freedom Movement) to …
Foreign ministers of the Central European Five (C5), a group of countries including Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia, met in Vienna on Wednesday. The Czech Foreign Ministry said that the heads of diplomatic missions – and Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon – discussed topical foreign policy issues. They also met with the …
Croatian Media: Slovenia Is Among The Countries Openly Siding With Putin And Lukashenko! Read More »
“Just a little while to go…” is what Tanja Fajon, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, wrote under a photo of her with a motorbike that she posted on her Instagram a few days ago. Meanwhile, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) is helping on the ground every …
Minister Fajon Is Posting Photos With Wind In Her Hair And A Harley Davidson Read More »
“The people who urged Slovenia to run for the non-permanent seat during the Janez Janša government hoped that Slovenia would represent a standing voice of reason in the Security Council. I fear that under this government, Slovenia’s position will be much more unaligned and fainter. In the sense of Kučan’s statement that it takes two …
We Have Won A Seat On The UN Security Council – What Now? Read More »
Tanja Fajon, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, recently posted a photo online before leaving for the USA, where the vote on the next non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council will take place in New York. She is pictured with a glass of (presumably) liquor, and apparently, somebody else from the Minister’s …
Slovenia appears to have joined a group of European Union Member States, led by Germany, which are advocating for the strengthening of qualified majority voting in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, arguing that this would contribute to making the EU a more effective global actor. Given that this type of decision-making also contributes …
The Golob Government Has Made A Very Dangerous Decision For Our Country Read More »
One year ago today, Slovenia became different. From a country that surpassed the European average in almost all aspects of development, success in dealing with the coronavirus, from a country where new projects grew like mushrooms after rain, to a country where citizens are tremblingly waiting for the next “idea” of the authorities to not …
Election anniversary: these are the real achievements of Golob’s government Read More »
“In the debate at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this morning, I pointed out, among other things, that EU unity on activities related to the Russian aggression in Ukraine is crucial. We do not benefit from incoherent reactions to the decision of the International Criminal Court, to whether Russia supports terrorism, to the genocide …
