Kočevje – Panta Rhei Beratungs- und Beteiligungs, an Austrian firm in majority Slovenian ownership, has recently acquired just over 30% of Melamin to become the biggest single owner of the Kočevje-based chemical company. According to a filing...

Koper – Around 65 cruise ships are expected to bring 80,000 passengers to the port of Koper this year, Luka Koper, the company operating the sea port, has announced, based on current bookings. The season will open on 27 March when Viking Sky is...

Luxembourg – A survey by Eurostat suggests Slovenians are among the least avid consumers of fruit and vegetables in the entire EU, second only to Romanians and on a par with Bulgarians. As many as one third of EU citizens reported eating no fru...

Slovenj Gradec – A group of crochet enthusiasts has launched an attempt to get their craft immortalised in the Guinness World Records bible of achievements and curiosities. They are trying to set a record of making 1,000 crochet items, includin...

Ljubljana – Jaša Jenull, one of the figureheads of Friday’s bicycle protests, faces a lawsuit in which the Interior Ministry alleges his responsibility for the costs of policing a 2020 anti-government rally amounting to EUR 2,255, the ne...

Ljubljana – A total of 4,469 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Friday, the highest daily figure in the latest wave of the epidemic. Six more Covid-19 patients died, show official figures. The latest cases, a 169% increase on...

Ljubljana – 2021 made for a quite dry, sunny and warm year in Slovenia but the month of December in Ljubljana was one of the dullest on record with only 18 hours of sunshine. New Year’s Day hit a new temperature high. Over the past 50 yea...

Kranjska Gora – Sara Hector of Sweden won the women’s Alpine Ski World Cup giant slalom event in Kranjska Gora on Saturday ahead of France’s Tessa Worley in second (+0.96s) and Italian Marta Bassino in third (+1.32). The podium winn...

Ljubljana – As an increasing number of school classes are moving online amid the Omicron-driven spread of coronavirus, the Education Ministry has reduced the number of marks students are required to get this school year. The ministry took a sim...

Ljubljana – The newspaper Delo lists three factors that will affect the outcome of the April general election in Saturday’s front-page commentary under the headline Robert Golob and Skeletons in the Closet. “The first important fact...