Berlin – Health Minister Janez Poklukar took part in the EU Health Summit in Berlin on Tuesday to note the importance of a stronger role of the EU in the field global health. “This would bring geopolitical advantages, and would also be us...

Ljubljana – Police Commissioner Anton Olaj has ordered for the investigation of death threats to Slovenia’s top officials and MPs to be taken over by a task force headed by the Criminal Police Directorate at the General Police Directorate...

Ljubljana – EKWB, a Komenda-based company developing and producing components for water cooling systems for custom-made high-performance computers, is this year’s winner of the Golden Gazelle Award for the best fast-growing company presen...

Brussels – Interior Minister Aleš Hojs addressed a virtual session of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on Europol on Tuesday, describing Europol as a key partner in providing internal security, while identifying a revision of its mandate...

Ljubljana – Mariya Gabriel, the European commissioner for innovation, started her working visit to Slovenia on Tuesday by calling for supporting innovation in Europe in the light of current and future challenges and to help Europe move to a dig...

Ljubljana – The Finance Ministry has sent a draft law on cryptocurrency taxation in for public consultation on Tuesday. It provides for a 10% tax on individuals exchanging cryptocurrency for fiat currency and on purchases made with cryptocurren...

Krakow – Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek was invited by his Polish counterpart Grzegorz Puda to attend a meeting of agriculture ministers within the Three Seas Initiative. The ministers discussed securing feed protein production in the EU...

Ljubljana – The Slovenian economic activity remains high but there are signs of a slowdown, the central bank says in its latest publication. The use of production capacities is high, the pre-crisis level of activity has been reached, and there ...

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 2,292 new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest daily case total since early January. More than a third of all PCR tests came back positive. The estimate of active cases in the country has topped 20,000, acco...

Ljubljana – The Ljubljana Local Court has sentenced Kristjan Verbič, the president of the Pan-Slovenian Association of Small Shareholders (VZMD), to a suspended prison sentence for insider trading in 2007, the newspaper Delo reported. Verbič ...