Already in the previous convocation of the Parliament, the Culture Committee of the National Assembly was a powerful tool of the left-wing opposition at the time for political confrontations with Janša’s government, which at that time was still with the President Violeta Tomić. The current president, Tamara Vonta, continues the spiritual work of Tomić, who …
The debate on freedom of the media, which was recently held in the European Parliament and chaired by Romana Tomc, head of the Slovenian delegation of the European People’s Party (EPP) to the European Parliament, is still a hot topic in the Slovenian and foreign public. Throughout the debate, the Slovenian left-wing media conglomerate (consisting …
MEP Romana Tomc, leader of the Slovenian delegation of the European People’s Party (EPP), has stressed that in current times, people rely on the media more than ever before. In addition to the public media, the so-called “mainstream” media, there is a growing tendency to follow private media, especially online news portals. However, the editorial …
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“With reference to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to the documents of the European Parliament, European Council and European Commission, I have requested the following from Věra Jourová today: to forward the notes from her meeting with the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia to me, as well as …
“Given that in your reply to our letter, you wrote that you cannot interfere in Slovenian legal matters, while at the same time, you seem to be very committed to getting the court to take a decision that will suit the left-wing political pole, we have to say that you are using double standards and …
Throughout the two years of the Janša government, European Commissioner for Values and Transparency and Vice-President of the European Commission, Vera Jourová, was known as a European functionary whose rhetoric was very similar to that of the Slovenian far-left activists in the media, academia and politics, who exported fabricated stories to Brussels about the “repression” …
Member of the European Parliament Romana Tomc has sent a letter to Vera Jourova, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Values and Transparency, and Sophie in ‘t Veld, Chair of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Groups, which is part of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs …
“It is, however, worrying that AKOS, as a state body that is part of the executive branch of government, has taken on the role of prosecutor and judge and ordered the media outlet to withdraw part of a private TV programme. Let’s call it what it is: a typical example of censorship,” wrote Jože Biščak, President …
After public pressure from left-wing journalists, media, and politicians on Dr Jože Možina due to Saturday’s show Utrip, the management of RTV Slovenia responded, “the management of RTV Slovenia condemns attempts to overthrow editorial independence”, adding that given that some from the social and political public, as well as some politicians, are calling for sanctions against …
As the former director of the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – referred to as the STA), Bojan Veselinovič refused to simply hand over the documentation to the Government Communication Office, with which the financing would have been taken care of – for the good of the employees and their families – we witnessed …
“Countries that adhere to the rule of law do not suspend judges like him. A measure like that is only used to silence unwanted judges,” lawyer Aleksander Pevec pointed out, also emphasising the importance of the independence of each individual judge. In his statement, he was, of course, referring to the now-former judge Zvjezdan Radonjić, who …
During the official inauguration of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which took place in Luxembourg, the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, commented to several journalists that the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) was on the action Hungary and Poland …
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