Nova Gorica – The Solkan Hydropower Plant has been temporarily shut down due to extremely low flow of the Soča river caused by prolonged drought, its operator, Soške Elektrarne Nova Gorica, has announced. This is the first time the Solkan pla...

Kranj – Gorenjska Banka, a Kranj-based bank, is joining several other Slovenian banks that will abolish negative interest rates on large deposits for legal persons on 1 August. The bank said on Thursday that it had decided on the change in line...

Ljubljana – A total of 1,973 coronavirus cases were recorded in Slovenia on Wednesday, around 145 more than a week ago, and three infected patients died, data from the Health Ministry shows. The number of patients hospitalised for Covid-19 as t...

Ljubljana – Representatives of the Slovenian minority in Italy will be meeting officials from the Government Office for Slovenians Abroad on Friday to discuss the risk that the minority may not have its representative in the Italian parliament ...

Ljubljana – After filing two referendum initiatives recently, the opposition Democrats (SDS) initiated procedures for a referendum on the changes to the long-term care act that delay the act’s implementation for a year. The SDS thinks thi...

Ljubljana – Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon briefed the government on Thursday about the current situation in Ukraine following her trip to Kyiv yesterday. She said that after five months of war the Ukrainians were exhausted and frightened, and an...

Ljubljana – Slovenia will seek aid from the EU Solidarity Fund over the series of wildfires that have ravaged the western region of Kras for almost two weeks, an official said after the cabinet session on Thursday. The government today tasked t...

Kostanjevica na Krasu – The three Kras local communities that have been affected by the wildfire in the western region have launched a campaign to raise funds to restore 3,500 hectares of surfaces destroyed by the fire. In a press release on Th...

Ljubljana – The government decided to reduce value added tax (VAT) on energy products for all users at Thursday’s session, Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič told a press conference. The reduced tax rate of 9.5% will apply for the heat...

New York – The UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal human right. The resolution was proposed by a group of countries, with Slovenia playing a...