“In all Member States we are seeing issues in healthcare systems. There are shortages of doctors and medicines in every state. It is a common EU problem,” said MEP Irena Joveva, Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Public Health (SANT), speaking to the Czech portal Zdravotnicky denik. This is just one of many important public health […]
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva attended the 3rd Young Political Leaders’ conference, this time organised under the title Bridging the Gap – Western Balkans. The event aims to reinforce youth engagement in politics through discussions on issues such as the role of youth in the enlargement process, green transition and disinformation. The […]
On Wednesday, 19 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke at the plenary session in Strasbourg on the EU Global Health Strategy. Stressing the importance of solidarity and of helping everyone in need, particularly in health care, she added that in implementing EU strategies, institutions should not forget to resolve our issues. Joveva’s opening remarks were […]
On Wednesday, 19 April 2023, during the Strasbourg plenary session, MEP Irena Joveva contributed to the topical debate Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now. She said that there has been enough delay in the overhaul of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction […]
On Monday, 18 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva appeared as a guest of the Jezikovni Pogovori (Language Talks) programme on Slovenia’s Radio Ars. She talked about how important it is that the Slovenian language is present in the digital world and about her fight in this respect, stressing that this should not be an ideological […]
“Knowledge has always been and always will be power. Seize it and use it to your advantage,” MEP Irena Joveva urged the young participants in a video address during the Citizens’ Dialogue event on 14 April 2023 in the Austrian province of Carinthia. The event brought together Austrian and Slovenian secondary school students in the […]
In the Šaleška region weekly Naš čas, published on Thursday, 6 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke about her personal life, her work in the European Parliament, the priorities of her political group Renew Europe and her visit to Velenje. She also stressed the importance of drafting the European media legislation, where she is involved […]
On Friday, 7 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva appeared as a guest of the national TV show Koda (Code). In the feature When will all phones, car systems and video libraries speak Slovenian? she talked about her efforts to ensure that the Slovenian language is offered by various digital platforms, and stressed that discrimination against […]
On Friday, 7 April 2023, MEP Irena Joveva took part in the Odkrito z odločevalci (Openly with Decision-Makers) discussion with secondary school students from the Gimnazija Nova Gorica. The young audience presented their initiatives for action in the areas they had highlighted as the most topical during workshops. The MEP applauded their choice of topics […]
On Wednesday, 29 March 2023, MEP Irena Joveva met with Apple representatives. They discussed the (non-)use of the Slovenian language on Apple’s operating systems, products and services. This meeting – unlike previous ones – gave the MEP a little more hope that things would move forward, as the company assured her that localising their content […]
