“European history must be defended against all attempts at denial and revisionism, which run counter to fundamental European values. Monuments should reflect the values we strive for and on which a peaceful and prosperous Europe is based,” MEP Irena Joveva declared during the Between Memory and Oblivion debate on 24 May 2023. She warned that […]
On Tuesday, 23 May 2023, MEP Irena Joveva joined the round table on The role and position of national languages in Europe hosted by the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. The participants discussed both the legal and political aspects of the (non-)use of languages in the EU internal market and in the context of international […]
As part of a delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education, Irena MEP Joveva took part in a working mission to Poland from 15 to 17 May 2023, where she learned about the current state of play in the field of media freedom, culture and education. Despite the attempts of the Polish […]
On Saturday, 20 May 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke to the daily Dnevnik’s Objektiv magazine about the issues surrounding the provision of services or products in Slovenian by multinationals present in Slovenia. She stressed that the most important thing is that their users always come first, and that legislation explicitly prevents language discrimination, not least […]
On Tuesday, 9 May 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke to the Primorske novice daily about the public use of Slovenian and her fight to safeguard it in the digital world. She emphasised that the size of the market should not justify discrimination against a culture or language, and that this digital gap must be closed […]
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023, MEP Irena Joveva discussed an update of the EU’s anti-corruption legislative framework at the plenary session in Strasbourg. She underscored that those elected to the European Parliament are there to act for the common good of all people, not to make lives easier for “individuals with deep pockets”, thereby seeking […]
On Friday and Saturday, 5 and 6 May 2023, MEP Irena Joveva hosted a two-day meeting on behalf of the ”Renew Europe Goes Local – Slovenija: osrednji del evropske zgodbe” (”Renew Europe Goes Local – Slovenia: a central part of the European story”), where she presented the work of her political group at the European […]
When I received the news in the summer that I had been accepted for a traineeship in the office of MEP Irena Joveva, I was of course thrilled and eager for the opportunity. But as the weeks turned into days before I was due to leave, I felt a sense of uncertainty creeping in. With […]
“Migration, of whichever kind, is inevitably accompanied with the questioning of one’s own identity. With the search for an answer to the question: who am I, really? It is accompanied with dealing with the multilayered nature of identity from the perspective of nationality, ethnicity and other spatially based feelings of belonging,” MEP Irena Joveva told […]
On Monday, 24 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva visited Maribor. Together with secondary school students from the Prva Gimnazija Maribor, she first attended the presentation of didactic material on the European Union to pre-school children. The booklet introduces the meaning and purpose of the European Union to the youngest children in a simple way, through […]
