Slovenia Times
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:04:14 +0000Mobile banking outpacing online banking
Ljubljana – Mobile banking apps are being used by more and more Slovenians, the number of mobile bank users among natural persons having already surpassed the number of online banking users by the middle of this year. In the second quarter, a t...
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:03:49 +0000Delo: Large polluters need to be stopped
Ljubljana – Delo points the finger at G20 nations as it argues in Saturday’s commentary that the onus is on the biggest polluters when it comes to keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. “It is clear who must do the most &...
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:02:12 +0000Language and culture in focus as minister visits minority in Austria
Klagenfurt – Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch paid a visit Friday to the Slovenian minority in Gailtal/Zilja, a valley in Carinthia. The preservation of Slovenian language and culture as well as bilingual education were in the fo...
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:01:45 +0000Positivity rate nears 40% as almost 3,000 new cases recorded
Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded 2,985 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the second highest daily figure in the current wave, as more than 39% of all PCR tests came back positive, show data by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Hospita...
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:00:55 +0000Fmr president accuses govt of being undemocratic
Sevnica – Milan Kučan, Slovenia’s former president, has accused the current government of being undemocratic as he told a ceremony Saturday that the next election will “decide about the return of democracy”. He said Slovenian...
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:00:03 +0000Dnevnik reserved about COP26
Ljubljana – Looking at the start of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), Dnevnik expresses reservations in Saturday’s commentary about the probability of success. Every country is entering the talks with its own interests, which are ...
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:34:25 +0000Paper says govt running out of sensible solutions for epidemic
Ljubljana – Dnevnik says in Friday’s commentary that the government, which should have taken measures against the new wave of the epidemic long ago, is procrastinating and running out of sensible solutions. It does not even want to think ...
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:33:29 +0000DuluxGroup confirms Jub acquisition plan
Ljubljana – DuluxGroup, an Australian paints group owned by Nippon Paint of Japan, has confirmed entering into a binding agreement to acquire Jub, a large Slovenian paints company, in a deal worth EUR 194.5 million. It plans to turn Jub into a ...
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:32:02 +0000Slovenia’s inflation at 3% on higher fuel prices
Ljubljana – Higher fuel prices have pushed Slovenia’s annual inflation rate to 3% in October from 2.4% in September, as the monthly increase in consumer prices hit 0.9%, the Statistics Office said on Friday. Oil derivatives were the singl...
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:31:38 +0000National budget records EUR 2.5bn deficit in first nine months
Ljubljana – The national budget recorded EUR 7.97 billion in revenue in the first nine months of the year, or 19.6% more than in the same period last year, while expenditure increased by 15.3% to EUR 10.42 billion. The deficit thus amounted to ...