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Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:49:12 +0000
Slovenia’s women’s ski-jumping team wins silver at World Championship
Oberstdorf – Slovenia’s Nika Križnar, Špela Rogelj, Urša Bogataj and Ema Klinec won silver at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on Friday, missing gold by just 1.4 points. This is first medal for Slovenia’...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:42:58 +0000
EU much better coordinated and prepared a year into epidemic, debate hears
Ljubljana – About a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU is better prepared to the crisis than at the beginning and better coordinated, agreed participants of Friday’s online debate hosted by the office of the European Parliament in Sl...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:41:00 +0000
Kustec rejects criticism over distance learning, dialogue
Ljubljana – Education Minister Simona Kustec, who faces an ouster motion, rejected criticism voiced against her by the opposition. She said the Education Ministry had introduced distance learning immediately after school closure in the first wa...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:39:47 +0000
Parliamentary body calls for new concept of demographic fund
Ljubljana – After discussing the government’s Demographic Fund bill at the request of the opposition, the parliamentary Commission for Oversight of Public Finances decided on Friday that the concept did not provide a long-term sustainabil...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:37:32 +0000
South African variant of novel coronavirus confirmed in Slovenia
Ljubljana – The first case of the South African variant of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in Slovenia on Friday, Health Minister Janez Poklukar told the press. The person from the area of Maribor in the north-east of the country has recent...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:35:54 +0000
Govt makes public national recovery and resilience plan, opposition calls for debate
Ljubljana – The government has declassified the draft national recovery and resilience plan after pressure from the opposition that a broad debate was required on the document. The parliamentary EU Affairs Committee discussed the plan on Friday...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:34:51 +0000
Left opposition critical of Janša’s fact-finding letter to EU
Ljubljana – The left-leaning opposition responded with criticism to Prime Minister Janez Janša’s letter to the European Commission that invites a fact-finding mission to Slovenia. The responses range from assessments that he is diverting...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:31:57 +0000
Janša urges Von der Leyen to send fact-finding mission to Slovenia
Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša has written to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with an invitation for the Commission to appoint a fact-finding mission that would visit Slovenia to get acquainted with the state of demo...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:29:17 +0000
Slovenia’s GDP down 5.5% in 2020 year-on-year
Ljubljana – Slovenia’s GDP dropped 5.5% in real terms in 2020 over the year before, the Statistics Office said on Friday. Domestic spending saw a considerable drop, while external demand also suffered a blow. Data for the final quarter of...

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:12:27 +0000
Movement restriction and ban on gatherings in coastal region from Saturday
Ljubljana – Any gatherings are banned in the coastal Obalno-Kraška region from Saturday and travel between this region and others is restricted to work- and health-related reasons, the government decreed at Thursday’s correspondence sess...



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