Janez Janša has been leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1993. He served as Minister of Defence between 1990 and 1994, a post he had also held during the Slovenian War of Independence, and has now served on four separate occasions as Prime Minister of Slovenia: from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, from 2020 to 2022 and again since May 2026. He holds a degree in Defence Studies from the University of Ljubljana.
As G7 leaders gather for their summit in France this week, Growth Commission Chairman Shanker Singham has urged them to take inspiration from the Commission’s extensive canon of work which sets out a range of policies that will help deliver growth in advanced Western economies. With the leaders slated to discuss economic growth on Wednesday […]
In this Growth Commission paper in May 2026, Growth Commissioner Douglas McWilliams set out the critical contribution to the economy of the UK’s tech sector and shared his first piece of monthly analysis of that sector’s contribution to economic growth. Today we publish this note with the latest update of his analysis. Following the publication […]
Growth Commission member Ewen Stewart has issued the following response to the GDP figures for the three months to April 2026 that have been issued this morning: “While welcoming GDP growth of 0.7% for the three months to April, there are signs of a slowdown with monthly real GDP estimated to have fallen by 0.1% for […]