Ljubljana – Marica Uršič Zupan, a journalist at the regional newspaper Primorske Novice and a lecturer, has been appointed ombudsman at public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, an office concerned with processing complaints by viewers and listeners....

Ljubljana – The Constitutional Court has found the government’s regulation imposing Covid-19 recovery or vaccination mandate (PC) on state administration employees at work place in contravention with the constitution for not being aligned...

Ljubljana – The parliamentary Commission for Oversight of Public Finances debated on Monday staffing at state-owned energy companies. The centre-left opposition reiterated its allegation of politically-motivated dismissals of managers, while In...

Ljubljana – Paying a visit to Ljubljana, European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi said on Monday that no one could dismiss European delegated prosecutors without the consent of the EU’s chief prosecutor. She drew attention to pressu...

Ptuj – Silvo Drevenšek, who has pleaded guilty to murdering his former spouse and her parents in front of his four-year-old son on Christmas Eve 2020, has been sentenced to life in prison, the first time a Slovenian court has handed down this ...

Brussels – Labour Minister Janez Cigler Kralj chaired on Monday a session of the EU’s Employment and Social Policy Council on minimum wages in the EU at which an agreement was reached on the proposed directive aimed at securing fair pay. ...

Koper – Under the headline Euros and Concrete Incredibility, the newspaper Primorske Novice comments on Concretely, a new party which emerged from a merger of Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek’s coalition SMC and National Council Pres...

Ljubljana – European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kövesi will visit Slovenia on Monday to discuss the cooperation of the country’s prosecutors with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) after Slovenia’s two Europea...

Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded 775 new coronavirus cases for Sunday, the lowest daily count since 24 October and down a quarter from the same day a week ago, fresh figures from the National Institute of Public Health show. The 7-day average of n...

Ljubljana – Aljoša Rehar took over as the new editor-in-chief of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) on Monday after serving as the head of the agency’s digital strategy group for the last seven years. He succeeds Barbara Štrukelj, who was...