Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša highlighted record annual investments in excess of EUR 2 billion as he presented the budgets for 2022 and 2023 at the National Assembly on Thursday, describing the budget bills as “optimistic and de...

Ljubljana – Health Minister Janez Poklukar said on Thursday that the introduction of the Covid pass mandate had been the only alternative to another lockdown. The recovered-tested-vaccinated (PCT) rule meant the difference between life and deat...

London – Slovenia has slipped three places in the World Energy Council’s latest energy trilemma index to rank 17th among 127 countries, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Australia. Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark top the rankings. The L...

Ljubljana/Kranj – The home of Zoran Stevanović, one of the principal initiators of protests against the Covid pass mandate, and the headquarters of his party Resni.ca (Truth) were searched on Thursday after Stevanović was detained by police a...

Ljubljana/Luxembourg – After a court reversed its decision to annul the original procedure to appoint Slovenia’s two European delegated prosecutors, the government has mandated the Justice Ministry publish yet a new call for applications ...

Ljubljana – A high level conference hosted by the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU on Thursday discussed quality work for life, which labour Minister Janez Cigler Kralj described as sustainable work that benefits the individual and...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has agreed to organise an international conference on tolerance in the spring in cooperation with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts EASA. The initia...

Novo Mesto – Revoz, a car manufacture and assembly plant based in Novo Mesto, is suffering from a shortage of electronic parts for its car models. They assessed that two-fifths of this year’s planned production has been lost so far. Adria...

Ljubljana – Almost 90% of Slovenians aged 16-74 used the internet regularly in the first quarter of 2021, show data released by the Statistics Office on Thursday. When surfing the net, some 58% of them (912,340 users) encountered fake or dubiou...

Brdo pri Kranju – Prime Minister Janez Janša has accused the European Commission of exceeding its powers and of political abuse of the rule of law in an interview with Euronews, saying in its efforts to get member states to comply with the EU&...