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Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:07:49 +0000
Slovenia enter final of European Volleyball Championship
Katovice – Slovenia defeated Poland 3:1 on Saturday to enter the final of the European Volleyball Championship for the third time in the last four championships. A nail-biting fourth set that lasted for almost an hour capped a three-hour game. ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:07:22 +0000
Tonin discusses cooperation with Czech counterpart
Prague – Defence Minister Matej Tonin, who is concluding a two-day visit to the Czech Republic on Saturday, meet his Czech counterpart Lubomir Metnar on the sidelines of NATO Days on Friday to discuss cooperation in international operations and...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:06:53 +0000
Levitating turntable maker goes into receivership
Ljubljana – Mag-Lev Audio, a Slovenian startup that developed the first levitating turntable in the world and collected EUR 800,000 in Kickstarter and Indie Gogo campaigns, has gone into receivership. After launching production, the company fai...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:05:44 +0000
Fraport Slovenija to get new head in October
Ljubljana – Fraport Slovenija, the company managing the Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, will get a new head next month, as the term of Zmago Skobir expires at the end of September. He will be succeeded by Babett Stapel, who is currently servin...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:05:01 +0000
Minister says Covid pass introduced to restrain epidemic not enforce vaccination
Maribor – Health Minister Janez Poklukar said in an interview with the newspaper Večer that the expansion of the Covid pass requirement had been introduced to put the epidemic under control not to force anyone to get vaccinated. He said hospit...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:04:33 +0000
Catholic youth gathering in Stična celebrates 40th anniversary
Stična – Youth Stična, a gathering of Catholic youths, is under way today, focussing on the issue of fear and insecurity among the young. Marking the 40th anniversary, the event was addressed by President Borut Pahor and Alojzij Cvikl, the ar...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:28:17 +0000
Delo says Slovenia lacks strategic goals
Ljubljana – As Slovenia received the first batch of EU recovery funds, the newspaper Delo says in Saturday’s front-page commentary that the country’s problem is that each government is setting its short-term goals rather than thinki...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:27:39 +0000
Dnevnik says SMC is part of political experiment
Ljubljana – The congress of the Modern Centre Party (SMC) marked a new round of an unprecedented political experiment in Slovenia, the newspaper Dnevnik says in Saturday’s commentary. The SMC was founded seven years ago due to discontent ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:26:13 +0000
1,248 new coronavirus infections recorded on Friday
Ljubljana – A total of 1,248 new coronavirus infections were recorded in Slovenia on Friday, according to the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Three Covid-19 patients died and the number of patients in hospitals has increased but the...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:25:33 +0000
Best youth and children’s book prize goes to Sebastijan Pregelj
Maribor – Sebastijan Pregelj is the winner of this year’s Večernica prize for the best youth and children’s book written in the past year. He won the award given out by the Maribor-based newspaper Večer for his book Vrnitev (Retur...



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