Slovenia Times
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:15:02 +0000Summer season expected to be “saved” by domestic tourists
Bohinj – Domestic tourists are expected to spend the rest of tourists vouchers, dominate this year’s tourist season in Slovenia and make for the bulk of tourist nights, a survey into travel trends of Slovenians in 2021 shows. “This ...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:14:09 +0000Slovenians eager to travel as charter flight takes them to Tenerife
Brnik/Ljubljana – Some 180 passengers are due to fry to Tenerife from Slovenia’s main international airporton Sunday, as the first charter flight this year is to be operated from Ljubljana airport by Croatian air carrier Trade Air. Sloven...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:12:13 +0000Biathlon World Championships in Pokljuka comes to a close with two mass start events
Austria’s Lisa Theresa Hauser new biathlete world champion Austria’s Lisa Theresa Hauser won a 12.5-kilometre mass start event for women at the Biathlon World Championships in Slovenia’s Pokljuka on Sunday for what is the first worl...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:04:46 +0000Slovenian mixed ski jumping team 2nd in World Cup in Rasnov
Rasnov – The Slovenian mixed ski jumping team of Nika Križnar, Cene Prevc, Ema Klinec and Žiga Jelar finished second in the World Cup event in Romania’s Rasnov on Saturday to show a good form ahead of the Nordic World Ski Championships ...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:03:06 +0000Paper hopes govt will come clear with measures for restaurants
Ljubljana – The scandal of Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek attending a meeting in a restaurant and the subsequent cover-up has shown the modus operandi of the current government – when a coalition politician makes a mistake, the gov...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:02:44 +0000Logar and Austrian colleague praise bilateral relations
Vienna – Foreign Minister Anže Logar was on a working visit to Austria to meet his counterpart Alexander Schallenberg. The pair assessed the countries’ relations in the past year as positive and noted the importance of the 100th annivers...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:58:38 +0000UKC Maribor wins first React-EU grant for pulmonary dept
Maribor – Slovenia’s second largest medical centre will get EUR 3.6 million from the European Regional Development Fund for a EUR 4 million investment to move its pulmonary department to a new location in what is the first grant from the ...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:57:42 +0000E-tolling contract in parliamentary spotlight
Ljubljana – The parliamentary Commission for Oversight of Public Finances debated Friday the selection of Slovakia’s Skytoll for an e-tolling system for cars. While the opposition alleged irregularities, motorway company DARS and the Infr...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:56:08 +0000Majbert Pharm to supply rapid tests to UKC Ljubljana
Ljubljana – The Ljubljana University Medical Centre (UKC) has signed a deal with Majbert Pharm to supply rapid antigen tests at virtually the same cost apiece as the company supplied to the Health Ministry for mass coronavirus testing under a c...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:54:38 +0000Important dilemma of digital journalism is attitude to social networks
Ljubljana – Digital journalism in Slovenia is on the rise and is no longer only an additional channel. Working online has its specifics and brings new dilemmas, one of them being the attitude to social networks, sharing contents and communicati...