Koper – A fire that broke out during Monday night under Socerb hill in the Koper municipality near the border with Italy has been brought under control, but has not yet been put out, authorities said on Wednesday morning. Given how bad it looke...

Ljubljana – The value of industrial production was down 0.2% in June compared to May, driven by declines in all relevant fields. It continued to increase year-on-year though, as it was 0.8% higher than in June 2021. The value in the first half ...

Ljubljana – A total of 1,714 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Tuesday, down 3% week-on-week, as the epidemic curve continued to decline in weekly comparison for 13 days in a row. Six Covid patients died, the Health Ministry...

Ljubljana – Gynaecologist Sabina Senčar has joined ten hopefuls who have so far announced their presidential bids as the country will be electing a new president on 23 October. She intends to run with the support of Resni.ca, a non-parliamenta...

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has issued the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) an adverse opinion for its 2020 operations, establishing a number of shortcomings and irregularities regarding jobs, pay, allowances, purchase of servic...

Ankara – In addition to President Borut Pahor’s upcoming meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, efforts to boost economic cooperation between Slovenia and Turkey are in focus of the second day of his visit to Turkey. Pahor...

Ljubljana – GEN Energija, the parent company of the state-owned power group that also includes the Krško nuclear power plant, has got a new supervisory board after the previous line-up was dismissed by Slovenian Sovereign Holding for what it d...

Ljubljana – Jadranko Grlić, the country’s chief labour inspector, resigned on Wednesday following a TV report of another case of exploitation of foreign workers in recent months. The Labour Inspectorate said he had stepped down over diff...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Robert Golob has proposed that TV Slovenija journalist Petra Bezjak Cirman be appointed the new head of the government Communications Office (UKOM). Earlier on Wednesday, the prime minister’s office confirmed fo...

Ankara – President Borut Pahor met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan before wrapping up his two-day trip to Ankara on Wednesday. The presidents confirmed that relations between Slovenia and Turkey were good and friendly. They talked ...