Ljubljana – The National Assembly appointed on Monday new members of public broadcaster RTV Slovenija’s programming council and supervisory board after the opposition walked out of the session in protest against what they said was a line-...

Ljubljana – As MPs are discussing the tenth Covid relief legislative package on Monday, a group of people gathered in front of the parliament building in the morning to protest against Covid restrictions, saying that if passed, the latest anti-...

Ljubljana/Slovenska Bistrica – The first case of avian influenza (H5N1) in domestic poultry in Slovenia this year has been confirmed in a small farm in the municipality of Slovenska Bistrica, said the Food Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protectio...

Ljubljana – The National Assembly endorsed on Monday the 10th omnibus coronavirus relief bill, a package of diverse measures such as one-off solidarity bonuses for vulnerable groups, extension of certain measures in healthcare, and liquidity lo...

Ljubljana – A bill that will simplify some administrative procedures and repeal a number of acts and regulations that remained on the books but were no longer applicable was passed by the National Assembly in a 46:41 vote on Monday in what the ...

Ljubljana – As the election year draws near, and there are more than 620,000 pensioners in Slovenia who are important voters, Večer says in Monday’s commentary that pensioners should demand concrete solutions from politicians and think w...

Ljubljana – In its latest commentary headlined Ruling by Planting, Dnevnik says that the current government often plants dubious provisions into bills that are often unrelated to the legislative proposals’ main foundations, citing the rec...

Ljubljana – The government’s approval rating in the latest Mediana poll conducted for the commercial broadcaster POP TV is at 30%, while 62% of the respondents said the government was doing a poor job. The ruling Democrats (SDS) meanwhile...

Ljubljana – A total of 698 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Slovenia on Sunday in a 19% increase week-on-week, according to data by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Hospitalisations were also up, while nine Covid-19 patient...

Mežica – The Slovenian maker of starter and industrial batteries TAB, which had planned to set up a Li-ion battery plant with a Chinese partner, for which it would also receive a government subsidy, has postponed the project indefinitely due t...