Ljubljana – The government has overstepped its powers and abused the police as it tasked the Interior Ministry to examine whether STA director Bojan Veselinovič’s alleged violations of the law contained elements of suspected crime prosec...

Ljubljana – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its forecast for Slovenia’s growth in 2021 from 5.2% to 3.7%. For 2022, it forecasts 4.5% growth, Bernardin Akitoby, chief of the IMF mission for Slovenia, said on Friday. T...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša will meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday afternoon ahead of the EU summit in Brussels, the Commission said on Friday. Janša and five other prime ministers called on von de...

Ljubljana – Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik has outlined several reforms Slovenia has drafted for faster digital transformation as he attended Digital Day, a virtual event organised by the European Commission and the Portuguese...

Ljubljana – Senior Slovenian politicians got vaccinated with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, after its application in Slovenia was briefly suspended this week for a review of possible risks. Getting their jabs today were President B...

Skopje – The Slovenian-based energy group Interenergo and the investment firm Trigal will be building a 30MW wind farm in North Macedonia. The EUR 40 million investment will be built in Bogdanci in the south-east of the country. The new wind fa...

Ljubljana – University professors, teachers, municipal officials and journalists have gained the most trust of the public during the Covid-19 epidemic in Slovenia, while police officers have lost the most public trust, shows a survey by the pol...

Ljubljana – Janez Cigler Kralj remains labour minister as the opposition-sponsored motion of no confidence was defeated by 44 votes to 38 in the small hours of Friday. The National Assembly was thus eight votes short of voting him out of office...

Ljubljana – Another 937 coronavirus cases were confirmed in 5,502 PCR tests in Slovenia on Thursday for a positivity rate of 17%. Hospitalisations were up by 23 to 485 this morning, with 88 patients in intensive care, three more than the day be...

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has found in a report on the efficiency of procurement of protective and medical equipment for containing the spread of the new coronavirus that, although the circumstances were extraordinary, the government, mini...