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President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen initiated a proposal regarding the increase of minimum wages across Member States of the EU.
Hungary handed in its revised recovery plan to the European Commission on Wednesday, under which the country will request €7.2 billion in grants, forgoing claiming €9.6 billion in cheap loans, after press reported that the initial plans of the government were rejected by the European executive.
This was an unexpected move as earlier during public consultations the Hungarian government indicated its intention to spend the full €16.8 billion available to it under the EU’s recovery fund.
Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, justified the change by saying the government does not want the country to go into debt.
9. 5. 2021
Prime Minister Janez Janša, in an interview for the Spanish newspaper El Correo, spoke about his appearance in the European Parliament, where the MEP Sophie in t Veld, ironically through the very Group that is supposedly the stronghold defending the freedom of speech, grossly censored his address; in the interview, the Prime Minister also discussed the developments in the European People s Party, as well as the communist era in Slovenia and the spread of communist ideas in Spain, and Slovenia s recent history. Prime Minister Janez Janša |
The interview with the Prime Minister is published below.
You have recently suffered censorship in the European Parliament, precisely in a debate in which your government was accused of censoring and attacking the media. What is true about these accusations? Who is behind this campaign?
The interview with the Prime Minister is published below.
You have recently suffered censorship in the European Parliament, precisely in a debate in which your government was accused of censoring and attacking the media. What is true about these accusations? Who is behind this campaign?
True, it is inconceivable that the European public witnessed the censorship carried out on behalf of the largest democratic institution in Europe by MEP Sophie in t Veld, ironically, through a group that was supposed to defend the freedom of speech. The Slovenian government takes freedom of speech and media freedom very seriously and does not agree to censorship, especially because the memory of the times when journalists had to sent their texts to the communist headquarters for approval before publishing is still very much alive among the Slovenian nation. I was also brought before a military court by the former regime and imprisoned precisely for exercising my right to freedom of speech, which is