Maribor – The supervisory board of electricity distributor Elektro Maribor has dismissed chairman Boris Sovič, in what is the third major staffing decision in state-owned energy firms in two weeks. The supervisors said Sovič was dismissed due...

Novo Mesto – A potential new lockdown would cause the state to go bankrupt, Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek said on Friday during a government visit to the south-east Slovenia. He said the Covid crisis was not over yet, so everyone should...

Ljubljana – Primary and secondary school students will start self-testing on school premises on Wednesday, the government decided on Thursday as it delayed the 15 November start by two days. Testing will be carried out three times a week, on Mo...

Ljubljana – Interior Minister Aleš Hojs and his Polish counterpart Mariusz Kaminski discussed on Friday the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, where according to Kaminski a new illegal migration route is being established. Hojs assured...

Brussels – The European Commission has decided to open infringement proceedings against Slovenia to ensure correct transposition of EU rules on combating terrorism. The country has now two months to respond to the formal notice from Brussels, o...

Ljubljana – Slovenia confirmed 3,431 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, the second day in a row that cases declined compared to the week before. The positivity rate declined slightly as well, to 37.6%. However, hospital figures continued to ...

Glasgow – Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak told the STA on Friday that negotiators at the Glasgow climate conference were making progress on virtually all points. “A solution is in sight. I’m optimistic,” he told the STA aft...

Ljubljana – Responding to a priest from the archdiocese of Maribor being defrocked over sexual abuse of an underage person, an institute for the protection of victims of sexual abuse in the church in Slovenia has expressed support for the victi...

Paris – President Borut Pahor attended a high-level meeting in Paris on Friday marking the 75th anniversary of UNESCO and held talks with the organisation’s director general Audrey Azoulay. He said in his address that UNESCO had a pioneer...

Ljubljana – A network of civil society and non-governmental organisations that is forming the Voice of the People initiative started its election campaign at Friday’s anti-government protest in Ljubljana. It presented ten out of its hundr...