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MPs change 2020-2024 budgeting framework to allow higher expenditure 24. April, 2021 Ljubljana – As the country continues fighting the epidemic with a number of measures, parliament endorsed on Friday the government’s proposal to raise the public spending ceiling for the period until the end of 2024. Considerably higher expenditure is planned for 2021, to be followed by a gradual decrease. The expenditure ceiling for this year will rise from EUR 24.9 billion as set last November to EUR 25.3 billion, putting the general government deficit at 8.6% of GDP. The upper limit to budget expenditu...

Slovenia Times 24. April, 2021 Ljubljana – In a 46:42 vote, MPs rejected on Friday the government’s proposal to merge eight major regulators into two agencies, as the majority of opposition MPs criticised the government for wanting to subjugate oversight institutions. Under a bill the government adopted last October, a new agency for market and consumers would absorb the Energy Agency, Agency for Communication Networks and Services, Competition Protection Agency, Traffic Safety Agency, Civil Aviation Agency and Railway Transport Agency. The new agency would regulate the energy...

Slovenia Times 14. April, 2021 Ljubljana – Parliament debated Tuesday the Court of Audit’s recent findings about the efficiency of personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement during the Covid-19 epidemic last spring. Centre-left opposition MPs insisted there had been serious problems with the purchases, coalition MPs saw today’s plenary as a mere show for the public. Speaking on behalf of the four parties which requested today’s session, Robert Pavšič of the opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ) said the court’s report was much more than just an audit of PPE procure...

Minister Kustec survives no-confidence vote in parliament 17. March, 2021 Ljubljana – Simona Kustec is staying on as education, science and sport minister as the National Assembly was eight votes short of voting her out of office. 38 MPs voted for her dismissal, while 41 opposed it after a 16-hour debate, which started on Monday and ended just after midnight. Four centre-left opposition parties mounted the no-confidence vote over what they claim are her unprofessional and harmful policies during remote schooling, arguing she should have acted more resolutely to return children to school ear...

Slovenia Times 11. February, 2021 Ljubljana – The parliamentary Finance Committee adopted a series of amendments to the National Demographic Fund bill on Wednesday, mostly based on remarks from the parliamentary legal service. The opposition walked out after its amendments, which would change the basic concept of the fund, were voted down. The committee members from the opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ), Social Democrats (SD), Left and the Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB) proposed a public debate on the bill arguing that the bill was being passed without debate at the Economic an...