However, STA management claims this is a lie. The government says it has blocked the funds because it has not received the necessary supporting documents from the agency. It's a move that has even turned heads at the European Commission. One of the latest controversies surrounding the media in Slovenia is the suspension of state funds to the national press agency, the STA. The Prime Minister has even earned an unfavourable nickname: Marshal Twitto, as critics say he never misses an opportunity to single out journalists he disapproves of on social media. He accuses it, on the government website, of holding a monopoly of lies. Since coming to power a year ago, he has relentlessly lashed out at the media. This claim that the threats are clearly organised is directed at the ultra-conservative Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa himself. "It's like someone pressed the off button which is a clear indication that someone pressed the on button the first time", Blaz adds. Almost all of the threats immediately stopped. It was then that he started to receive death threats, by the dozens.Īfter an appeal from several international press freedom organisations, the European Commission asked the Slovenian government to ensure the journalist's safety. He says that after the tweet was posted on the government's COVID-19's crisis unit account, "propaganda trumpets started writing about me, saying that I was a deep state journalist, that I was a liar". Blaz Zgaga, an investigative journalist, Slovenia euronews
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