Slovenia Times
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:44:23 +0000Pahor paying state visit to Turkey this week
Ankara – President Borut Pahor will start a two-day state visit to Turkey on Tuesday at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bilateral relations and the situation in Ukraine will top the agenda. The situation in the W...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:43:07 +0000Reporter thinks previous, current governments unserious about corruption in healthcare
Ljubljana – Neither the previous nor the current government have been serious about tackling corruption among suppliers of medical devices, the weekly Reporter argues in the latest commentary. It took Janez Janša’s government two years, ...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:42:08 +0000Europe should not give in to aggressors, says Delo
Ljubljana – The newspaper Delo writes that Europe should not yield to authoritarian states and new aggressors in Monday’s front-page commentary headlined Europe against Might is Right. The paper notes events that have changed the course o...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:40:54 +0000Summer film season starts at Museum Plaza
Ljubljana – A screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator on Monday evening will lift the curtain on a series of events organised at the Museum Plaza on Metelkova Street that will include mini festivals of short film and videos, and...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:39:53 +0000No major drop in property prices expected yet
Ljubljana – Judging by the available statistical data, Slovenia’s housing market is not showing signs of cooling just yet although real estate agents say prices have stopped going up mid-year. Still, pundits do not think any major drop in...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:38:38 +0000Just over 1,000 new Covid cases at the weekend, six deaths
Ljubljana – A total of 1,041 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia at the weekend, 17 fewer than the combined figure reported a week ago and six patients with Covid-19 died, data released by the Health Ministry shows. Since Friday...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:37:27 +0000Triple murderer Drevenšek sentenced to 30 years in prison in retrial
Ptuj – A retrial in the case of a man who murdered his estranged spouse and her parents in front of his four-year-old son on Christmas Eve 2020 has ended with a sentence of 30 years behind bars. In the original trial at the Ptuj District Court,...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:35:47 +0000Largest two parties clash over parliamentary inquiry
Ljubljana – Even before it began its work, the parliamentary inquiry set up at the behest of the ruling coalition to look into alleged illegal financing of parties through media has hit a snag after the largest opposition party, which is to be ...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:34:35 +0000Paper opposes unlimited term for tax office chiefs
Ljubljana – The business daily Finance disputes in Monday’s commentary the provision in the government’s draft income tax act that would reinstate unlimited tenure for the chiefs of local tax offices, arguing that this paves the way...
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 16:03:25 +0000President Pahor at Sinjska Alka as a guest of honour
Split – President Borut Pahor will be the guest of honour at the traditional Sinjska Alka equestrian competition in the Croatian town of Sinj this Sunday upon invitation of his Croatian counterpart Zoran Milanović. Pahor will be the first fore...