Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša announced on Twitter on Thursday that all adults under 50 will start to get vaccinated on Monday. “We will have enough vaccine for everyone by summer. Let’s be responsible to ourselves and oth...

Ljubljana – MPs from all three coalition parties submitted to parliament on Thursday a proposal to dismiss Speaker Igor Zorčič, with the argument that he had joined at the end of March a group of unaffiliated MPs, which is not part of the coa...

Tirana – President Borut Pahor met his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta in Tirana on Thursday as part of a whistle-stop tour of the region in preparation for the 17 May regional summit in Slovenia. In a renewed call for EU enlargement to the West...

Brussels – The European Commission has noted the Slovenian government’s duty under law to secure suitable funding for the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) in response to the agency’s questions about the fundraising campaign for the STA,...

Brussels – Defence Minister Matej Tonin argued the EU should put political decisions into practice faster, as he attended what was the first in-person EU defence ministerial in about a year. The ministers discussed military mobility in Europe w...

Ljubljana – Changes to three major tax laws that the government adopted yesterday are designed to improve the competitiveness of the Slovenian economy. While income tax changes alone are expected to reduce annual tax receipts by EUR 276 million...

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 774 coronavirus cases for Wednesday from almost 4,230 PCR tests for a positivity rate of slightly over 18%, an improvement from Wednesday last week. Three Covid-19 patients died, shows government figures released on ...

Ljubljana – Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković have signed an agreement under which the government and Ljubljana will cooperate on 29 projects in 2020-2023. The deal is in line with the law on t...

Ljubljana – The government has issued a decree on measures to remedy the market disruptions in the wine sector caused by the coronavirus pandemic, worth EUR 5.1 million. Like last year, the decree provides for temporary exceptional measures of ...

Ljubljana – The government has adopted amendments to three tax laws in a bid to reduce labour taxation and help businesses and individuals in the post-Covid recovery, including by increasing the general personal income allowance, reducing tax o...