Ljubljana – Tatjana Mlakar, the director general of the ZZZS public health insurer, has noted in an interview with the STA that the new obligations imposed on the ZZZS do not have long-term financial coverage, and is worried that this will resu...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s coronavirus curve keeps falling both in terms of new cases and hospitalisations. A total of 4,542 new cases were confirmed on Wednesday, just over a third of the figure reported a week ago. Government data shows a t...

Ljubljana – The new US Ambassador to Slovenia Jamie L. Harpootlian presented her credentials to President Borut Pahor on Thursday, after the US Embassy in Ljubljana was headed by the chargé d’affaires for more than a year. Harpootlian sa...

Ljubljana – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is to make an official visit to Slovenia on Monday as part of which he is to meet his counterpart Janez Janša in Lendava, the newspaper Večer and TV Slovenija have reported citing unofficial s...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has declined the call by the Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ) not to sign a decree appointing new ambassadors ahead of the general election. He said that postponement of the appointments as part of regular rotation wo...

Ljubljana – The National Electoral Commission (DVK) has proposed that the Government Office for Digital Transformation and the Interior Ministry set up of a digital electoral roll. It believes this would make the work of electoral bodies and th...

Beijing – Slovenia’s Maruša Ferk Saioni finished 9th in the women’s Alpine combined at the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Thursday, which saw a double victory of Swiss skiers. Michelle Gisin won the gold and Wendy Holdener the silve...

Brussels – Defence Minister Matej Tonin said on Thursday that Slovenian soldiers remain in Mali for now and continue training Mali troops. The statement comes after France announced its troops would withdraw from this African country, where Slo...

Brussels – Slovenia is still among the NATO countries with the lowest defence spending. It ranks 25th in terms of efforts to have 2% of GDP allocated for defence and 26th when it comes to defence investments, Defence Minister Matej Tonin said i...

Brussels – Defence Minister Matej Tonin said Slovenia was interested in hosting a regional maintenance base for US-made OshKosh armoured vehicles as he held talks on Thursday with US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin. Slovenia bought three doze...