Ljubljana – Slovenian veterinary authorities have confirmed the third case of bird flu (H5N1) this week in a swan that was found dead in the Hoče-Slivnica municipality in east Slovenia. The new case comes three days after the first case of the...

Ljubljana – Representatives of six opposition parties appeared in a end-of-year talk at the public broadcaster TV Slovenija on Wednesday evening to discuss several issues. Most of them were against mandatory vaccination against Covid-19, citing...

Ljubljana – Network charges for the distribution of electricity will increase by 14.16% as of new year, which will bring about an annual price increase of EUR 22.52 for an average household consumer, the Energy Agency announced. For the transmi...

Ljubljana – The omicron variant of coronavirus is rapidly becoming the dominant variant in Slovenia and experts estimate it already accounts for 40% of all cases. Last week, omicron represented a few percent of all cases that were positive in P...

Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded an annual inflation at a 4.9% rate this year, compared to a 1.1% deflation last year, the Statistics Office reported on Thursday, noting that more expensive petroleum products contributed the most to the inflation....

Koper – The container terminal of the port of Koper has surpassed its annual record for container transshipment, which stood at 988,501 container units. The port operator Luka Koper said on Thursday it would have transshipped 996,000 containers...

Ljubljana – The health crisis brought Slovenia to the brink, but the country also managed to score major victories that will carry it on in what will be a wave of investments, Prime Minister Janez Janša said in his New Year’s message on ...

Ljubljana – The number of new coronavirus cases in Slovenia increased by more than 50% on a weekly basis as 1,704 cases were recorded on Wednesday, show data from the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). The test positivity rate was up b...

Ljubljana – Pope Francis’ message before the upcoming World Day of Peace, which the Catholic Church celebrates on 1 January, is entitled Dialogue between generations, education and work: means to build lasting peace. He addresses issues r...

Ljubljana – The college of epidemiologists at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has unanimously endorsed the position that they cannot support the introduction of mandatory vaccination for now, citing an absence of legal basis and ...