Ljubljana – Anže Logar, an MP for the opposition Democrats (SDS) and former foreign minister, filed his candidacy for the 23 October presidential election on Wednesday. He filed it with the support of 5,000 voter signatures, which makes him an...

Koper – More than a hundred foreigners from the Ljubljana and Logatec asylum centres, mostly from Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Burundi, attempted to leave the country for Italy by train on Tuesday. They were caught by police. The Koper police ...

Ljubljana – Slovenia has ranked among EU countries with a good overall score regarding the implementation of an EU directive on reducing the impact of plastic products on the environment, despite not yet fully transposing the directive, said th...

Ljubljana – Lawyer Nataša Pirc Musar officially joined the presidential race on Wednesday by submitting more than 5,000 voter signatures. She stressed she was joining the race without the burden of party membership, past or present, and with m...

Ljubljana – The Justice Ministry will see its budget cut by almost a fourth in the revised budget for 2022 to EUR 91.6 million, which the relevant parliamentary committee heard on Wednesday was due to delays in three major investments. Justice ...

Ljubljana – Slovenia has received this week 100,800 doses of the Pfizer vaccine adapted to the original coronavirus variant and the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of the Omicron variant, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has told the S...

Ljubljana – Researchers at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ljubljana have developed an “elastocaloric regenerator”, an environment-friendly device which boasts durable performance while at the same time delivering record co...

Ljubljana – Slovenian doctors have announced a general strike starting on 19 October unless the government concedes to their long-standing demand that they be excluded from the uniform pay system in the public sector and create a separate pay s...

Ljubljana – The council of the Left on Wednesday picked MP Miha Kordiš to run as the coalition party’s candidate for president in the 23 October election. The Left will thus not back a joint coalition candidate. Kordiš, who is known for...

New York – President Borut Pahor will recall Tone Kajzer, Slovenia’s ambassador to the US, after being urged to do so by the government due to an internal cable that Kajzer leaked to opposition SDS leader Janez Janša. The ambassador is e...