A right-wing, anti-immigration opposition party led by a former Slovenian prime minister won the most votes in Slovenia’s parliamentary election Sunday, but not enough to form a government on its own, according to preliminary results.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian voters go to the polls this weekend in a parliamentary election expected to produce no clear winner but which could see strong gains by an anti-immigration party backed by Hungary’s firebrand prime minister, Viktor Orban.
“Melania” was among the top five baby names in rising popularity last year, the first year of Melania Trump’s time as first lady of the United States.
First lady Melania Trump celebrated her 48th birthday on Thursday. Twitter was flooded with birthday wishes for Trump, complimenting her style and grace.
Earlier this month, last-place late night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked the accent of First Lady Melania Trump, and now the Slovenian residents of the town she grew up in are telling the far-left Kimmel to back off.
Slovenia’s Economy Minister held a press conference to tell reporters the good news about increasing tourism in first lady’s homeland.
An out-of-court settlement was reached in a libel lawsuit filed by first lady Melania Trump over an article in a magazine published in her home country that claimed she worked as a paid escort during an international modeling career that pre-dated her marriage to President Donald Trump.
Multinational automaker corporations like Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen used illegal foreign workers to build their plants in the United States, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit.
Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron accuses EU countries of ‘social and fiscal dumping’; Britain sees a big fall in net migration since Brexit vote
Kelly Roberts, owner of a landmark southern California hotel and wife of the inventor of the frozen burrito, is expected to be tapped to be President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia.
German car giant Mercedes-Benz dropped the importation of foreign workers to build their Vance, Alabama-based auto plant following a report on how Americans are often left behind by multinational corporations.
Foreign workers are being imported to the United States to build auto plants, a recent investigation finds.
SEVNICA, Slovenia — It’s a short book, just 42 pages and some filled with photographs. But it goes a long way in explaining the facts about the strong, proud people who carved a small but free nation out of the former Communist Yugoslavia and produced one of the most famous women in the world: Melania Trump.
SEVNICA, Slovenia — Janez Levstik offers a bright smile and a firm handshake when he greets visitors at the information center in the heart of Sevnica, a hamlet of 5,000 in southeastern Slovenia. The tours he leads these days, however, aren’t to the medieval castle (Gard Sevnica) or hilltops with views of the picturesque River Sava that runs through the heart of town.
On Jan. 20, 2017 the nation’s attention was fixed on the west balcony of the Capitol building in Washington, where President-elect Donald J. Trump and soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump were about to arrive for the 45th swearing-in of a U.S. president.
First lady Melania Trump told the people of Poland that the safety and security of the American people are her husband’s “main focus” as president. She also said living in safety and security is a universal desire and one she hopes all people in the world can someday enjoy.
First Lady Melania Trump’s small hometown in central Slovenia is booming with business thanks to her ascendance to power and fame in the United States, according to the town’s mayor.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused European Union leaders of encouraging illegal immigration and asking Europeans to put migrants ahead of their own families.
Melania Trump smiles at passersby on a highway in Sevnica, Solvenia that reads “Welcome to the Hometown of First Lady” — a billboard that represents more than a celebration of its most famous citizen.
After Melania Trump met with Pope Francis in the Vatican Wednesday, her spokeswoman confirmed that the First Lady is indeed a Roman Catholic, the first to occupy her post since Jackie Kennedy.
(AP) – Slovenia’s lawmakers have backed overwhelmingly a controversial tightening of asylum procedures designed to avert a big influx of migrants into the country.
Slovenia’s centrist Prime Minister has predicted “conflict” in Europe if the migrant crisis escalates again, and defended the construction of fences.
Contents: Migrants trapped in Serbia march toward border with Hungary; The refugee problem continues, despite EU-Turkey deal
LJLJUBLJANA, Slovenia—In the gray drizzle of the Slovenian capital, a crowd of hundreds gathered in February to protest the flow of foreign refugees through their tiny country. Confronted with riot police, some cried, “Traitors!”
(Reuters) – Slovenia is due to receive the first 30 refugees and migrants from Greece under the European Union migrant relocation scheme, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. EU leaders in September approved the transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers
The Austrian army is leading a training exercise with national police to prepare for what they call a migrant crisis “worst case scenario”. On Thursday members of the Austrian armed forces along with the federal police engaged in an exercise
Slovenia announced Tuesday that it will refuse the transit of most migrants through its territory in a bid to seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of people seeking a new life in Europe. The dramatic twist
Contents: Greece facing humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees on Macedonia border; Tsipras: ‘Greece will not become a warehouse for souls’; Greece recalls ambassador to Austria as refugee crisis worsens
Slovenian police are investigating after 30 inhabitants of a migrant centre absconded, leaving local parents deeply concerned for the safety of their children. The Vrhnika town housing centre for migrants is separated from the local junior school by just a low fence
The Slovenian parliament late Monday authorised the army to help police manage the flow of migrants crossing the Croatian border into Europe’s Schengen passport-free zone, which has been rocked by the refugee crisis. The bill sailed through, approved by 69
(AFP) – Slovenia said Sunday it would clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to enter the country, ahead of tougher measures set to be announced by neighbouring Austria later this week to slow down the influx. The two
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will extend its border controls if Turkey does not take back refugees picked up at sea on their way to Greece, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in an interview with the daily Oesterreich. He had earlier said
VIENNA – Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighbouring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years. About 63.4 percent of voters rejected the law in
KOPER (SLOVENIA) (AFP) – Slovenia on Sunday began voting in a referendum on whether to allow the largely-Catholic EU member state to become Europe’s first ex-communist country to allow same-sex marriage. Polling stations opened promptly at 7:00am (0600 GMT), although hardly
