Ljubljana – Expressions of condolences are coming from Slovenia to North Macedonia following a fire in a Covid-19 hospital in Tetovo on Wednesday evening, in which at least 14 people died. On Twitter, the Slovenian Foreign Ministry expressed co...

Trieste – The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), the organisation of Europe’s autochthonous national minorities and language groups, opened its annual congress in Trieste, Italy on Thursday with the speakers, including Minist...

Ljubljana – The opposition Left, Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ), and the Social Democrats (SD) filed on Thursday a legislative motion that would ban hydraulic fracking in Slovenia in what is the fourth attempt at trying to prevent drilling plans of ...

Ljubljana – Some Slovenian mayors seem to be quite innovative in inviting citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and in fighting low local vaccination rates. Ivan Benčina, the mayor of a small municipality in the south, urged citizens to ...

Brussels – The European Parliament’s democracy monitoring group plans to go on a fact-finding mission to Slovenia between 13 and 15 October, shows a document obtained by the STA. They would like to meet representatives of the media, NGOs ...

Ljubljana – Members of several local committees of the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS) have defected to join the opposition Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB), SAB leader Alenka Bratušek told the press on Thursday. She sees this as a recognition tha...

Ljubljana – Another seven stumbling stones or Stolpersteine will be laid in Ljubljana on Thursday to honour the memory of the city’s Jewish citizens who were torn from their homes during WWII and taken to concentration camps in Europe. Th...

Ljubljana – Slovenia reported 1,016 new coronavirus infections for Wednesday in what is the second day in a row when the daily case count exceeded 1,000, show fresh official data. Hospitalisations increased to 269 as one person with Covid died,...

Ljubljana – Slovenia exported goods in the value of EUR 3.5 billion in July, or 17.3% more than in the same month last year, while imports, also totalling EUR 3.5 billion, were up by 26%. The imports-to-exports coverage was 98.9%, as a EUR 40 m...

Ljubljana – An inter-parliamentary conference on the EU’s common foreign and security policy organised as part of the Slovenian EU presidency on Thursday heard calls for a united and active approach by the bloc to global challenges. Natio...