Kočevje – The damage caused by the fire at the chemical factory Melamin in Kočevje last Thursday has been estimated at around EUR 36 million. The company will seek EU funding for renovation. CEO Srečko Štefanič said the management had pres...

Ljubljana – The gradual decline in the Covid pandemic continues, with Slovenia reporting lower hospitalisations and cases over the weekend, according to the latest Health Ministry data. There were 58 patients in hospital due to Covid this morni...

Ljubljana – The Left has launched a vote among members on whether it should join the coalition after the party’s council initialled a coalition agreement with the Freedom Movement and the Social Democrats (SD). The members have one week s...

Ljubljana – Slovenia met 53% of its energy needs with domestic energy sources last year, which makes an improvement of two percentage points compared with 2020, Statistics Office data shows. The country depended fully on imports for petroleum p...

Ljubljana – Anamarija Lampič, Slovenia’s best cross-country skier, has announced a switch to biathlon, a decision she says was long in the making since she had wanted to become a biathlete as a child. “After the end of the season I...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s largest medical centre, UKC Ljubljana, generated a shortfall of EUR 9.3 million last year. Given the Covid-19-related constraints and increase in costs, director-general Jože Golobič assessed the performance as su...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s economy expanded at an annual nominal rate of 9.8% in the first quarter of this year driven by household spending and capital expenditure. The seasonally adjusted rate was 9.6%. At the quarterly level GDP was up by ...

Ljubljana – Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Slovenia lack the funds and properly skilled staff to adopt digital technologies, shows a survey which took a closer look at digitalisation at Slovenian companies. “SMEs will not be...

Ljubljana – Doctors strongly oppose the announcement in the draft coalition agreement that doctors in the public sector will be fully banned from working for private providers. Nurses, on the other hand, have welcomed an announcement of better ...

Ljubljana – The Ljubljana city council endorsed on Monday the city’s energy strategy for 2022-2030, envisaging a 40% cut in CO2 emissions by 2030 compared to 2008 and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century. Three h...