Ljubljana – Since hospitals are struggling with nursing staff shortages and trade unions have been warning that the situation has never been this bad, as many nurses quit their jobs, while those remaining are exhausted, an agreement has been re...

Ljubljana – After President Borut Pahor announced he would call a general election for 24 April, this triggered varied reactions from political parties all across the political spectrum. Coalition partners largely welcomed this decision, while ...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša met with representatives of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU (COMECE) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) on Friday. They discussed the global role of the EU, religious...

Ljubljana – Former police commissioners Andrej Jurič in Anton Travner, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) director Petra Grah Lazar and her predecessor Andrej Lamberger denied political interference in the work of the police and police sta...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor addressed a meeting of foreign diplomats accredited to Slovenia on Friday, calling for strengthening the EU’s unity and stability. The meeting of the diplomatic corps was hosted by the corps’s doyen...

Ljubljana – A meeting between the Health Ministry and hospital directors agreed on Friday to immediately increase the number of beds for Covid patients and staff working at Covid wards. The new maximum of beds in intensive care was set at 300 a...

Ljubljana – Mimovrste, Slovenia’s largest online retailer, has been acquired by Polish shopping platform Allegro. The latter bought Mall Group, which owns Mimovrste and WE/DO, from PPF, EC Investments and Rockaway Capital on Thursday. The...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has announced he plans to call the general election for 24 April, the earliest possible date for a scheduled election. The presidential decree to that effect will be signed in February, the president’s of...

Ljubljana – A total of 3,771 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Slovenia on Thursday in 9,961 tests for a positivity rate of almost 38%, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) announced, as the daily number of cases dropped somewha...

Ljubljana – Gross domestic expenditure on R&D amounted to EUR 1 billion last year, an increase of 2% compared to 2019, according to provisional data. That was a record both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP – 2.15% of GDP or 0.1...