Izola – The coastal town of Izola is ready for the 18th iteration of the Isola Cinema International Film Festival, which will take place from 1 to 5 June. Lovers of art film can look forward to 41 carefully picked feature and 71 short films, wh...

Leipzig – Three vending machines offering poems by Slovenian, Austrian and Leipzig-based poets will be set up in Leipzig, in eastern Germany, on June 1. The project is the brainchild of poet and writer Matthias Göritz, currently serving as a p...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s annual inflation hit 8.1% in May, the highest rate since 2002, on the back of soaring fuel and food prices, the latest Statistics Office figures show. The monthly rate stood at 2%. Liquid fuels were almost 43% more ...

Brnik – Starting on Tuesday, the French carrier Air France will operate two daily flights to Ljubljana airport from Charles de Gaulle airport (Paris) during the summer months. The carrier will fly to Paris from Ljubljana in the morning and in t...

Ljubljana – Farming in Slovenia has to be sustainable with an emphasis on economically efficient production, environment protection and social sustainability, said Irena Šinko, the candidate for agriculture minister, in her presentation at the...

Ljubljana – A total of 380 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia on Monday, a 51% drop from a week ago, while no Covid patient died, Health Ministry data shows. A total of 31 patients were still hospitalised for Covid-19 as their ...

Ljubljana – The company Nova Obzorja, which publishes weekly Demokracija and web portal Škandal24.si, has a new majority owner. The two-third majority share has been transferred from Hungarian company R-Post-R to NovaTV24.si, the company runni...

Celje/Slovenj Gradec – Four individuals and two legal entities are suspected of the criminal act of burdening and destroying the environment in relation to the dumping of over 500 tonnes of waste gypsum containing high levels of heavy metals on...

Brussels – Janez Janša, the outgoing prime minister, urged the EU and the west to focus on military assistance to Ukraine rather than on sanctions as he arrived for the second day of meetings at the EU summit on Tuesday. Sanctions are not the ...

Ljubljana – Asta Vrečko announced that her priorities as culture minister would be a development-oriented and inclusive culture policy, an overhaul of media legislation and of the status of the self-employed, as well as systemic investment in ...