Amnesty for covid fines coming

The Slovenian government has adopted a bill that halts all infraction proceedings for breaking covid-era rules that were later declared unconstitutional, which will affect fines totalling several million euros.

Since the end of the covid state of emergency the Constitutional Court has voided key provisions of the law on communicable diseases and the law on public assembly, legislation which served as the legal basis for the previous government's heavy-handed approach to fining violations of covid restrictions.

The fines were one of the reasons why anti-government protests...