Ljubljana – Cigarette sales in Slovenia have been on a decline in recent years, dropping by more than a third from 2011 to 2020. This trend has been followed, although at a slower pace, by declining income from related excise duties in the nati...

Ljubljana – An absolute daily record of 8,681 new coronavirus cases was confirmed in Slovenia on Monday as the positivity rate reached almost 63%, fresh official statistics show. The weekly increase in new cases was nearly 17%. According to gov...

Ljubljana – Marjan Divjak, who has served as director general of the Finance Ministry’s treasury directorate since 2013, has been put forward by President Borut Pahor to succeed Primož Dolenc as one of four vice-governors of the Slovenia...

Ljubljana – Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek announced on Tuesday that he would run in the general election in the spring on the slate of the coalition New Slovenia (NSi), saying that the party provided political stability. NSi president M...

Ljubljana – The opposition Left opposes the idea floated by PM Janez Janša to hold a referendum on amendments to the income tax act along with the general election in April and is considering withdrawing its petition for such a referendum. ...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša revealed in an interview with the Indian public service broadcaster Doordarshan that Slovenia and Taiwan are “work[ing] on exchanging representatives”. He was critical of China over its respon...

Ljubljana – Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec reiterated his promise that the state would help the coal-mining regions through transition as he responded to misgivings aired by those dependent on the industry over the strategy to exit coal...

Ljubljana – Slovenia will be fielding a total of 41 athletes at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a group featuring a number of established Olympians as well as some potential dark horses. Based on the season so far, the women’s and m...

Ljubljana – Delo says in Tuesday’s front-page editorial that companies in Slovenia will face shortage of staff also after the Covid-19 epidemic. This should be tackled with digitalisation and automation of processes, training of employees...

Ljubljana – The newspaper Finance makes some suggestions to the government in Tuesday’s commentary headlined What We Are Forgetting When We Talk of Costly Energy, including making it possible to turn unspent tourism vouchers into energy v...