Entries by Nina Maurovič

“Health should always come first.”

IPOPI – the International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID) organized this year’s 17th EU PID Forum on the combat against cancer. MEPs Irena Joveva and Deirdre Clune hosted the virtual forum. The relationship between cancer and PID is complex, so that is why the forum provided a platform to discuss the specific aspects of […]

“LABOUR MARKET CHALLENGES: What has COVID-19 brought us, and what are the demographic changes bringing us?”

MEP Irena Joveva organized a round table on the labour market challenges affected by COVID-19 and demographic changes. Her interlocutors were Jana Javornik, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, researcher and former Director-General of Higher Education, the Republic of Slovenia at the Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport, Government of Slovenia; Ksenija Klampfer, […]

Open discussion with students of Nova Gorica Grammar School: use your head and stay active

On Tuesday, 6th April, 2021, students of the Nova Gorica Grammar School, who participate in the EPAS programme, organized an online conversation “OPENLY with Irena Joveva”. The discussion was about the current situation in the EU relating to the pandemic, climate change, and other pressing issues. In the opening remarks, everyone pointed out that the […]

The story of digital green certificates. A true story.

So, a digital green certificate. The title itself seems rather unfortunate to me, but that is the least essential thing in the whole story at the end of the day. Yesterday, the European Parliament voted on whether to consider the proposal for a regulation on these “COVID-19 certificates” under the urgency procedure. I voted against […]

Show me your “feed”, and I will tell you who you are

On Friday, 16 October 2020, before the second plenary session of the European Parliament in October an online interview with journalists took place focusing on the reform of the Common European Agricultural Policy and the debate and vote on Parliament’s proposals on the content of the Digital Services Act and rules on artificial intelligence.  MEP […]

Joveva is one of the most active Slovenian MEPs

According to various indicators of the activities of MEPs, Irena Joveva is the most active Slovenian MEP in several fields of her work. All activities of Members of the European Parliament are regularly updated on the “MepRanking.eu” web portal. On the portal, you can check MEPs work in the relation of the whole of Parliament, […]

Freedom of the media is becoming threatened in democratic societies

On Wednesday, October 14, 2020, Irena Joveva participated at the Regional Journalists’ Days, where she opened a panel discussion titled “Disinformation, Social Networks and Journalism: Understanding and Fighting Fake News”. The panel discussion aimed at independent media platforms, investigative journalists and experts from the Western Balkans and Turkey. The discussion focused on fact-checking and information […]

Recognition of the importance of libraries in politics is too low

As part of the interactive event “Generation Code: Born in the Library”, Irena Joveva spoke with Maja Vunšek from the Kranj City Library, who recently joined the EU initiative Public Libraries 2030. The library was included in the group of innovative public libraries in Europe “Lighthouse Libraries”. Project “Public Libraries 2030” brings together public library […]

Ecological compromises in achieving climate neutrality in Slovenia?

On Wednesday, 30 September 2020, MEP Irena Joveva hosted an informal virtual debate with experts and NGO representatives regarding Slovenia’s strategic plan and the need for an ecological compromise to achieve climate neutrality. Joveva wanted to emphasize the importance of dialogue with the profession and the need to communicate. The environmental and climate crisis is […]