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Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:19:56 +0000
Foreign Minister Logar admitted to hospital, report says
Ljubljana – Foreign Minister Anže Logar has been admitted to the UKC Ljubljana medical centre, reported the news portal Siol.net on Saturday. According to unofficial information, the minister has appendicitis and is awaiting surgery. No furthe...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:19:14 +0000
Famed Swiss organ unveiled in Koper cathedral
Koper – The Koper cathedral will inaugurate its new organ at Saturday’s mass, which is to be attended by Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia Jean-Marie Speich and President Borut Pahor. The organ, which came from the famous Tonhalle concert hall...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:18:30 +0000
Student Radio raises nearly EUR 88,000 in donations to carry on
Ljubljana – Radio Študent, an independent radio station that has been struggling in the wake of funding cuts, has raised EUR 87,820 in a campaign that ended with September. The donations will enable the radio station to finish this year as pla...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:17:28 +0000
Covid restrictions stepped up, but no new lockdown
Brdo pri Kranju – Amidst surging infections, the government decided late on Friday evening to tighten Covid restrictions instead of imposing another lockdown. From Monday, the Covid pass mandate is expanded, opening hours of bars and restaurant...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:16:54 +0000
Večer says 24 April election will come too late
Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has decided to call a general election on the first possible date, 24 April 2022, “but if he expected to calm down the increasingly tense situation in the country, he was very wrong”, the newspaper ...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:16:28 +0000
Over 32,000 Slovenian residents working abroad
Ljubljana – While some Slovenian employers are struggling to find staff, more than 32,000 Slovenian residents commute daily to work abroad, most of them to Austria, where the average pay is more than double Slovenia’s. The Slovenian Finan...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:16:01 +0000
Over 3,660 Covid cases reported for Friday
Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 3,662 new coronavirus infections on Friday with the positivity rate standing at 38.1%, up slightly on the day before, show fresh figures by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Data from the tracker site C...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:15:25 +0000
Committee throws out pharmacy bill after upper chamber veto
Ljubljana – The parliamentary Health Committee rejected amendments to the pharmacy act on Friday evening after the National Council vetoed the changes in late October. The bill was thrown out in an 8:7 vote. In the repeated procedure, the amend...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:14:56 +0000
Supervisors dismiss Elektro Ljubljana chairman, report says
Ljubljana – The supervisory board of Elektro Ljubljana, Slovenia’s largest electricity distributor, dismissed on Friday the company’s chairman Andrej Ribič, reported the N1 portal, quoting the Pozareport portal’s Twitter post...

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:19:26 +0000
Nursing staff reaches agreement with govt on pay rise
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...



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