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  • The Slovenian government has suspended funding for the country's news agency STA whose reporting has been strongly criticised by conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa, an official said Tuesday. "We cannot finance STA and can't sign a new contract for 2021," the head of the government's Information Office told journalists. STA management had failed to provide data for the agency's financial operations, he charged. The Information Office has supplied around two million euros annually to the Slovenian News Agency, founded in 1990 when the country decided to leave the former Yugoslav federation. STA director Bojan Veselinovic told state television he had provided all the figures required but would not give details about staff and editorial work. "If I agreed to give them explanations about how long an interview or a report is, or why the chief editor and 21 journalists sign a declaration, then I would be breaching the media legislation," Veselinovic said, referring to questions posed by the Information Office. Shortly after assuming office in March, Jansa used his Twitter account to attack critical media which questioned his handling of the coronavirus crisis, accusing them of spreading lies, fake news and serving the interests of the opposition. In October, Jansa tweeted that STA was a "national disgrace, an evident abuse of the name it carries" for having given more space to an interview with a musician that had criticised the government than to his meeting with his close ally, Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban. The Slovenian Journalists Association protested against the cutting of funds saying it was an attack against independent journalism. "It is obvious that this is another attempt to destroy the national press agency that represents one of the pillars of quality and impartial reporting," the association said. "That is something we have already seen in neighbouring Hungary," it added. The pensioners' party DESUS and centre-left Modern Center Party (SMC) -- junior partners in the four-party ruling coalition -- also criticised the move and demanded STA's financing be restored. bk/bp
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  • Slovenia cuts funds to public news agency in PM's crosshairs
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