Entries by Aljaž Debeljak

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“We Are Running Out of Time.”

MEP Irena Joveva addressed the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the topic of the 2022 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (also known as COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. She began her speech with the slogan ‘We Are Running Out of Time‘, under which the climate relay is currently running from […]

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“Borders exist only in the mind”

In today’s plenary address on the topic of continued controls at the internal borders of the Schengen area, MEP Irena Joveva, in the light of the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, stressed that the border controls in the Schengen area that are not based on legitimate reasons are unacceptable. […]

“It is in everyone’s interest that this discriminatory practice is abolished as soon as possible.”

MEP Irena Joveva expects answers from the managers of digital platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon) as to why languages with fewer speakers are being discriminated against. She expects this practice to be eliminated as soon as possible, she told the newspaper Delo. During the interview, the MEP pointed out that we should not be afraid of […]

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“It is civil society that makes a better and fairer country possible.”

On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, MEP Irena Joveva attended a meeting between the European Parliament delegation and the North Macedonian Parliament (the Sobranie) and spoke about the state of the media and civil society in North Macedonia. First, she expressed her satisfaction at the unblocking of the accession negotiations and then, among other things, congratulated […]

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”Health is the foundation of everything. Without health, there is no functioning economy, school systems, social care, politics… nothing.”

Today, during the plenary session in Strasbourg, MEP Irena Joveva addressed the European Parliament on the Health Union. In her contribution, she pointed out that health is a sine qua non and that the quality of treatment and access to medicines should not depend on a person’s country of origin. She added that the mandate […]

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”The rules applying to our single market in the physical world must also apply in the digital world.”

Today, MEP Irena Joveva addressed the European Parliament during its plenary session in Strasbourg on the topic of the discrimination against the Slovenian language on digital platforms. In her address, Joveva maintained that Members States and languages of the European Union are equal, and that the EU has a common market whose rules in the […]

Parliamentary question

Written question to the European Commission On 18 August 2022, the Israeli forces once again attacked the seven leading Palestinian human rights organisations (Al-Haq, Addameer, the Bisan Center for Research & Development, Defence for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and the Health Workers Committees). The raids […]

Parliamentary question

Written question to the European Commission The European Union guarantees the equality of all its 24 official languages, including Slovenian. Although multilingualism is promoted throughout the Union, in reality it is limited, as is clear on the internet and digital platforms. In practice, on the digital platforms of the European digital market there is both […]