Slovenia has gained two spots to rank 19th on the latest Rainbow Map, published annually by Europe's leading LGBTI organisation, ILGA-Europe. However, issues persist with an EU survey suggesting that bullying and harassment targeting LGBTI people are...

A cafe at the Vetrinje Mansion, an arts events venue in the centre of Maribor, has joined the Zero Waste Slovenija network as the first zero waste cafe in the country. Vetrinjc BarCoda generates just 60 grams of waste per customer and the whole cafe ...

The US business magazine Forbes has ranked the Slovenian basketball superstar Luka Dončić third on the list of the world's highest-paid athletes aged 25 or under. He ranks 34th overall among all athletes. Having ranked 5th on the list of top-earnin...

A €45 million office complex is under construction next to the Ljubljana ring road in the Šiška borough which the investors plan will become part of a new business district in the coming years. The first building of the sustainability-oriented We...

A €165 million wind farm has been inaugurated in eastern Serbia in a Slovenian-Serbian joint venture that is one of the biggest renewables projects in the former Yugoslavia. The Slovenian company Alfi Renewables, acting through its Alfi Green Energ...

Slovenian fishermen fined by Croatia for fishing in waters that a border arbitration tribunal awarded to Slovenia in 2017 have failed with their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which declared their applications inadmissible. In a...

Slovenia's NLB bank has announced its intention to launch a voluntary public takeover bid aimed to acquire control of the Austrian Addiko Bank. Its bid will rival that of Agri Europe, a Serbian-owned group. Announcing its intention on the website of ...

Slovenia's Olympic team will sport a chic navy-blue and light-grey outfit with a flat cap for the Paris 2024 opening ceremony as a tribute to France, the host country. "Winning, distinctive and functional," is how the Slovenian Olympic Committee (OKS...

Hard on the heels of her visit to the Middle East and the Slovenian government's decision to start procedures to recognise Palestinian statehood, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon returned to the region for a tour taking her to Egypt, the United Arab Emir...

A global survey conducted in 39 countries suggests that Slovenia has the lowest proportion of people struggling to make ends meet, while the share of people who live comfortably is well above the global and European averages. The survey, conducted by...

Staff at 34 out of Slovenia's 58 administrative units went on all-out strike on 15 May after failing to have their demands for better pay and extra staff met despite staging strikes every Wednesday for the past two months. Staff at another 15 units w...

Slovenia's economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.1% in real terms in the first quarter of the year. Seasonally-adjusted growth in GDP, which is a gauge used across the EU, was 1.8% year-on-year but level on the quarter before, data released by the ...

One of the largest hotels in Ljubljana, the Austria Trend Hotel has been sold to the Serbian group Agromarket, which also owns Semenarna Ljubljana, a company specialising in seed production, the news portal Property Forum has reported. It is unclear ...

Slovenia's main foreign affairs event, the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), will focus on cooperation to the benefit of all this year. Running under the theme A World of Parallel Realities, the 19th BSF will take place on 2 and 3 September and will give e...

Students at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV) have ended their sit-in protest in support of Palestine after six days after their demands were upheld by a number of departments across different faculties, as well as the FDV and ultimately...

Slovenia is planning to limit short-term rentals to 30 days a year in a bid to address housing shortages. The cap will not apply if the property is registered as a tourist accommodation facility. The curbs are proposed in a draft hospitality industry...

Marko Bošnjak, the Slovenian judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), has been elected the court's president in what he sees as an expression of trust by his colleagues and a recognition to Slovenia. "During my term, I will try to do ever...

Over a hundred products representative of Slovenian wood design were put on display in Ljubljana on 13 May at an annual exhibition aimed at promoting wood and wood products and the country's wood-processing industry. Held for the 16th year, the exhib...

Ana Karneža, a Slovenian actor and singer, currently finishing her last year of the MFA acting program at the Juilliard School, won the first prize in 2024 Lenya Competition in the US in early May. She was shortlisted for the prize among 286 candida...

As Slovenians head to the polls to elect nine members for the European Parliament (MEPs) on 9 June they will be able to choose among 98 candidates on 11 slates, representing a dozen parties or groups. All of the country's current eight MEPs are runni...

A total of 37,002 people participated in the three-day sports event Walk along the Wire, which annually commemorates the liberation of Ljubljana in the Second World War. Popular among hikers and runners, the event kicked off on 9 May, when the capita...

Slovenian Eurovision entrant Raiven finished the song contest in 23rd place, scoring 27 points. She received 15 points from jury votes and 12 from televoting. Raiven's result is slightly worse that indie rockers Joker Out achieved last year, when the...

Observed since 2014, Slovenian-American Friendship Day is an opportunity to celebrate the ties between Slovenia and the US, but it is also the day of commemorating US airmen who died in a WWII bomber crash near Polzela in 1944. This year's ceremony w...

People often climb mountains for recreation, sport, entertainment, in search of fresh air or breathtaking views. But Ajdna, a tooth-shaped peak below Mount Stol in northwestern Slovenia, offers much more than a momentary respite from the world. One o...

Tadej Pogačar powered to yet another stage win at the Giro d'Italia, humbling the competition in the individual time trial to further extend his lead seven days into the three-week race. Storming up the final climb of the 40.6km course from Foligno ...

Slovenian businesses generated €6.7 billion in aggregate net profit in 2023, the highest figure yet, in what AJPES, the agency for public legal records, says testifies to the resilience of the Slovenian economy. Value added was also up, on flat rev...

The Slovenian 2023 Eurovision Song Contest entry Carpe Diem by Joker Out was the second most played track on Slovenian radio stations last year, bested only by Miley Cyrus's Flowers. Releasing the data, the IPF institute for the promotion of rights o...

Jesenice, a municipality in northwest Slovenia, will no longer have public transport starting from 1 July after three open calls for bus transport over the past year have ended without a single bidder taking part. Locals and greens think more should ...

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the ranks of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) has brought a lawsuit against the European Commission at the EU's General Court. He claims one of the Commission's vice-presidents exerted undue pressure...

Slovenia's largest banking group NLB is planning to double its total assets, revenue and profit by the end of 2030, to reach target figures of €50 billion, €2 billion and €1 billion, respectively. The plans were set out as the bank presented it...

The government has launched procedures for Slovenia to recognise Palestinian statehood in what Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon described as a first, irreversible step. The government will submit the recognition motion to the National Assembly by 13 June...

A karst plateau rising above the northern edge of the Vipava Valley is at the centre of a cross-border project that will explore the heritage of Czech glassblowers who moved there in the early 18th century to practise their craft. Their main product ...

Territorial Defence played a crucial role in Slovenia's independence efforts, providing a basis that the nation's armed forces evolved from. Faced with new threats, the country is now planning to revive it. Speaking to reporters on 7 May, Defence Min...

Slovenian Gašper Pintar and Tom Livingstone from the UK have made the first ascent of a new mixed climb up the South Face of Mount Dickey (2,909m) in the Ruth Gorge, Alaska which they named The Great Wall. The pair climbed what is one of the highest...

Slovenian singer Raiven has qualified for the final of the 68th Eurovision song contest. She made it through in the first semi-final on 7 May along with Serbia, Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Finland, Cyprus, Ireland and Luxembourg. Raiven, t...

Croatian services company Mplus has acquired a 51% stake in Panvita, Slovenia's leading agri-food company, through a €50 million capital injection. The transaction is conditional on regulatory approval. "The two groups are partnering up to position...

The National Assembly has set up a parliamentary inquiry targeting Star Solar, a company owned by Prime Minister Robert Golob, Gen-I, a company he used to run, and the financing of his party Freedom Movement. The inquiry, launched by default after it...

eVersum Technologies, a company based in Austria's Graz, has been developing and producing electric minibuses across the border in the Maribor area for several years now, carving out a niche for itself in the international commercial vehicles market....

Slovenia and the UK celebrated their friendship and alliance with an annual ceremony on 6 May in a village in southeastern Slovenia where a British bomber crashed just before the end of the Second World War and the surviving crew members were rescued...

Nearly one-third of the population emigrated out of Slovenia in the final decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. A monograph telling the stories of people that left their home in search of a better life has now come out in Engl...

Visitors to Lake Bled were treated to an impressive sight as well as sound on 5 May as more than 450 accordion players got together to play some of the most memorable tunes in unison. The annual event dedicated to the quintessential Slovenian instrum...

Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon visited Israel and the West Bank on 5 May for a second time since the start of the Israeli-Hamas war nearly seven months ago, sending out a message that the recognition of Palestine as an independent state is no longer an...

Slovenia's cycling star Tadej Pogačar won Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia to claim the leader's pink jersey despite suffering a puncture before heading into the final climb to the Sanctuary of Oropa in Italy's Piedmont region. In his debut appearance i...

The Slovenian men's ice hockey team has qualified for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, the elite level of international ice hockey competition, by securing a top-two finish at the ongoing World Championship Division I in Bolzano, Italy. Slovenia def...

Slovenia has jumped eight places to rank 42nd in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders, but despite the improvement journalists warn they still face pressure and economic uncertainty. The country scored 72.6 points, up f...

Woody high-altitude wetlands and mountain pastures that have long attracted visitors to Pohorje, a lush massif in northeast Slovenia, will enjoy special protection with the creation of a new Pohorje Regional Park. The park stretches over 52 square ki...

Slovenia will soon start building a repository for low- and and intermediate-level radioactive waste produced by its sole nuclear power plan. Construction will start in May with the facility slated to become operational in 2028. A Slovenian consortiu...

Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts. The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of t...

The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines...

Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments." "We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for t...