As the biggest lover of lakes in the world I have seen more than 1330 lakes in Slovenia. Many of them are mostly suitable for fishing, some are created to be admired only, but in these hot summer days we are in a search of those, that invite us for a...

Ljubljana/Brdo pri Kranju – With the start of the school year only a week away and facing criticism about inadequate preparedness, education officials provided assurances on Monday that educational institutions are prepared for another year of ...

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has decided to outsource some of the contact tracing to a private company, City Connect. The six-month deal is worth almost EUR 2.3 million, or EUR 1.86 million without VAT, the busines...

Ljubljana – More than 50% of Slovenians aged over 18 have been fully vaccinated and 55% have received the first shot of a coronavirus vaccine, the latest official figures show. Figures from Cepimose.si, the official vaccination portal, show mor...

Celje/Golnik – The Golnik University Clinic and the Celje General Hospital joined today the country’s largest hospitals, UKC Ljubljana and UKC Maribor, in admitting Covid-19 patients as Slovenia is entering deeper in the fourth wave of th...

Ljubljana – The draft 2021-2030 National Programme for Higher Education, which will be up for public debate until 20 September, envisages changes to the granting of concessions and financing of higher education institutions. The Education Minis...

Ljubljana – Foreign Minister Anže Logar will pay a visit to Israel on Monday to meet his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid. On Tuesday he will be in Palestine to meet Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. Meetings...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor will be in Kyiv on Monday to attend an international conference dedicated to Russia’s unlawful annexation of the Crimea in 2014, at which a joint declaration will be adopted and the Crimea Platform formed...

Brussels – European Parliament President David Sassoli has countered Prime Minister Janez Janša’s statement that the EU would not open any humanitarian or migration corridors to Afghanistan by saying it was “not for to the currentl...

Ljubljana – The average gross pay in Slovenia in June stood at EUR 1,952, down 2.8% nominally on May and down 3.4% in real terms. Totalling EUR 1,256, the average net pay in June was down 2.4% in nominal terms and down 3% in real terms, the Sta...