Rome – Defence Minister Matej Tonin signed an agreement on the purchase of a Spartan C-27J transport aircraft with his Italian counterpart Lorenzo Guerini in Rome on Wednesday. The agreement on cooperation between the two defence ministries in ...

Ljubljana – Triglav Group, Slovenia’s largest insurer, saw its net profit in the first three quarters of the year increase by 48% on the same period a year ago to EUR 75.2 million as consolidated gross written premium rose by 10% to EUR 1...

Koper – After 26 years of service, Slovenia’s oldest police boat made its final voyage off the Koper coast on Wednesday. It will now be consigned to a museum. Built in Italy in 1994, the P-111 boat embarked on its maiden voyage in June th...

Ljubljana – Self-testing of Slovenian primary and secondary school students got off to a largely problem-free start on Wednesday. Reports from schools suggest the vast majority of parents consented to testing and only a small percentage of pare...

Ljubljana – Police Commissioner Anton Olaj has dismissed allegations of political staffing in the force after a trade union complained that recently adopted legislation had resulted in a “purge” in the top echelons of the police for...

Brdo pri Kranju – While there are reasons for the European tourism sector to be optimistic after a good summer season, there is still a long way until full recovery, speakers at the European Tourism Forum agreed in Brdo pri Kranju on Wednesday,...

Čatež ob Savi – The Slovenian men’s second team surprisingly defeated the first team 2.5:1.5 in the open competition at the European Team Chess Championship on Tuesday. The Slovenian women’s second team was also successful yesterd...

Ljubljana – The prices of apartments and houses have been rising rapidly since the real estate market started recovering in March. In the first half of the year, they rose by around 8% year on year, the highest six-month growth since the 2008 r...

Ljubljana – Commenting on the fighting over who is right and who is wrong in the debate on the testing of children at schools, the newspaper Delo says in Wednesday’s front-page commentary that everyone has forgotten about the children, wh...

Ljubljana – On International Students’ Day, the Slovenian Student Organisation (ŠOS) pointed to what it sees as an unenviable position of the current generation of students due to the Covid-19 epidemic and consequences of measures to ste...