Ljubljana – Novartis has signed an initial agreement to use its manufacturing facility in Ljubljana to fill the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19. The Novartis Technical Operations site in Ljubljana will fill at least 24 million doses in...

Ljubljana – Slovenia reported 1,845 new coronavirus cases for Wednesday in what continues to be a week-on-week increase, show data released by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). The test positivity rate stood at 27.8%, up from 20.1...

Ljubljana – Consumer confidence deteriorated for the fourth month in a row in October. The figure was down by four percentage points both on September and the long-term average, the Statistics Office said on Thursday. Month-on-month, all releva...

Ljubljana – Svetlana Makarovič, a leading Slovenian poet and children’s author, is the winner of this year’s Ježek Award, an accolade celebrating creative and witty radio and television works. Makarovič was labelled as the most r...

Ljubljana – Average monthly costs per person in paid employment in Slovenia increased by 5% last year to EUR 2,498.73, data from the Statistics Office shows. Wages accounted for 86.4% of the labour costs. According to Eurostat, Slovenia’s...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s largest electricity supplier Gen-I will not increase the prices of electricity and natural gas for households at least until summer 2022 despite the situation on global markets, Gen-I’s board chairman Robert G...

Ljubljana – The 32nd Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) returns to cinemas after being held in the virtual realm last year. According to the festival’s director, Simon Popek, around 80 feature and 16 short films will be screed ...

Ljubljana – Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek has confirmed the government is considering introducing energy vouchers to help the most vulnerable groups of population cope with rising prices, but also said on Thursday they hoped such measur...

Ljubljana – Energy companies Petrol and OMV Slovenija, leading providers of petroleum products in Slovenia, said on Thursday they would abide by a new government regulation re-introducing administered heating oil prices which will kick in on 9 ...

Ljubljana – Slovenia and four other EU countries have drawn up a proposal to transform the EU’s existing battle groups into a rapid reaction force in an initiative prompted by the experience of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan where the ...