The second item on the agenda of the 10th plenary session of the Constitutional Court was to consider the petition for a review of the constitutionality of the Act on Amendments and Additions to the Act on Radio-Television Slovenia, but the Constitutional Court judges did not adopt any decision at that time. And while we …
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In a short article that was presented in the section “Highlighted” (Izpostavljeno), the national media outlet RTV Slovenia presented a brief timeline and the key events that marked the process of developments and decision-making on the amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act. This was the first thing on Robert Golob’s list of priorities since the …
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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 …
