On Thursday, 9 October 2025, Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva took part in the plenary debate marking World Mental Health Day, stressing that mental health must be placed at the heart of European policymaking. “Mental health is not a luxury. It is a fundamental human right. It is dignity,” Joveva declared. At the […]
According to my conscience. As always. This time, the motions of no confidence in the European Commission came from both the far-left and the far-right ends of the political spectrum. Each side put forward its own. If the real intention had been to remove Ursula von der Leyen, the approach would have needed to be […]
On Tuesday, 7 October 2025, Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva took part in the plenary debate on the European Union’s role in supporting the latest peace efforts for Gaza and the two-state solution. “Now or never. Not tomorrow. Not next week,” Joveva said, underscoring the urgency of establishing peace. At the outset, Joveva […]
On 2 September 2025, MEP Irena Joveva participated in the panel Europe Chooses – creating unity or facing fragmentation at the Bled Strategic Forum, where she and other interlocutors discussed the future of the European Union in an increasingly divided world. In her introduction, Joveva stressed that the work in this mandate is particularly challenging […]
Dignity. What is it? Even more importantly: Where is it? The basis of everything, the basis of man, but the first in line to be trampled on today. It is trampled on by people, who are not people. Those “people” who trample on people, who are people… but are dehumanized. What a paradox. The world […]
“The hypocrisy of the leftists cannot be hidden. The European Parliament member and leader of the Svoboda list, Irena Joveva, recently voted in Brussels against the extension of the measure to fight child sexual abuse online, while at the same time publicly advocating for children’s rights in Gaza. She herself “warns” about the rise of […]
On Monday, August 26, 2025, at the Henry Jackson Society panel, European MP Irena Joveva took part in a discussion about the political crisis in Serbia following the tragic collapse of the canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad. In recent weeks, as Joveva pointed out, it has become more and more obvious that […]
I am deeply disturbed by the consequences of Saturday’s events in Austria, where heavily armed Austrian special units – without having a court order and without any prior warning – stormed a symbolic site of remembrance. Uniformed forces, helicopters, drones, long-barrelled weapons and police dogs were deployed against the descendants of victims of Nazi violence, […]
On Tuesday, 23 July 2025, MEP Irena Joveva gave an open, emotional interview to the popular Macedonian magazine Ženski magazin, where she reflected on her roots, childhood, and personal journey from her hometown of Jesenice to the halls of the European Parliament. In an honest and moving conversation, she also spoke about motherhood, political challenges, […]
On Monday, July 11, 2025, Slovenian Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva gave an in-depth interview to Monitor, an independent Montenegrin weekly. She discussed a range of pressing issues—from the vote of no confidence in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the tense geopolitical climate in the Middle East and Serbia, to […]