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Rising trend persists amid warnings third wave already happening
LJUBLJANA - Slovenia recorded 1,030 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, as new infections rose by around a fifth compared to the week before, a trend that has been going on for a week. The new cases however come amidst intensified testing and the latest figures indicate the situation in hospitals remained stable. Infectious diseases specialist Mateja Logar, who heads the government's expert group, however warned that the country is no longer just facing a new wave of the epidemic but is already at the start of the third wave.
Pahor, Erdogan discuss strategic partnership
LJUBLJANA - President Borut Pahor spoke over the phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to mark ten years since the two countries signed a strategic partnership agreement that they said had accelerated economic cooperation and deepened political dialogue. Pahor's office said Slovenia was seeking a more balanced trade and a rebound in economic cooperation after a dip caused by the Covid-19 epidemic. They also discussed EU-Turkey relations with Pahor urging "dialogue and a constructive resolution of issues in the East Mediterranean".
Hojs meets Belgian, Dutch, EU officials in preparation for presidency
BRUSSELS, Belgium/THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Interior Minister Aleš Hojs held talks with senior Belgian, Dutch and EU officials Thursday and Friday as part of preparations for Slovenia's presidency of the EU. He met with Christine Roger, director-general of the Council General Secretariat in charge of justice and home affairs, his Belgian counterpart Annelies Verlinden and Secretary of State for Asylum and Migrations Sammy Mahdi, the Dutch ministers for migrations and justice, Ankie Broekers-Knol and Ferdinand Grapperhaus, and Europol's executive director Catherine De Bolle.
Church says all vaccines ethically acceptable in current circumstance
LJUBLJANA - The Slovenian Bishops' Conference said that all coronavirus vaccines were ethically acceptable for Catholics in the given circumstances, after earlier advising against the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on the grounds that cell lines from an aborted foetus had been used in its development. "Believers currently don't have a choice... [the Bishops Conference] is therefore of the opinion that they can be inoculated with any of the available vaccines."
Pivec returns to politics as president of new party, Our Land
MARIBOR- Five and a half months after resigning as the leader of the Pensioners' Party amidst an ethics scandal, Aleksandra Pivec, a former agriculture minister, has retuned as the leader of a new party, Our Land.The party has not revealed much about its platform except for the pledge to "connect all Slovenian lands" and pursue a policy of "forging ties, dialogue, cooperation and higher level of political culture". Pivec said "politics must abandon ideology and return to the people".
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