Ljubljana – Slovenians this year searched the web most often for information about the coronavirus, as shown by Google’s data on Slovenia’s most frequent searches in 2021. The data tracker website Covid-19 Sledilnik was the most sea...

Brussels – Coming out of a meeting of EU home affairs ministers, Slovenia’s Aleš Hojs said it had been agreed that Croatia meets the conditions for entering the Schengen Area, and that it was a key step towards a final decision on the ex...

Washington/Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor took part on Thursday in a virtual summit for democracy hosted by US President Joe Biden to draw attention to the crisis of confidence in democratic institutions and the low level of political and le...

Ljubljana – The government decided on Thursday to increase wages of employees of the police force and the Interior Ministry due to the increased volume of work and special workload related to support tasks of the police. The decision will be ap...

Brussels – Interior Minister Aleš Hojs expressed the hope that progress could still be made by the end of 2021 on changes to the European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database (EURODAC), a part of the new Migration Pact. He noted that there would not b...

Maribor – A pop song without which Slovenians can hardly imagine a New Year’s Eve is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the anniversary, a museum in Maribor honoured its singer and citizen Alfi Nipič with an exhibition which trace...

Ljubljana – The Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (KPK) has not established any violations of integrity legislation in 12 procedures targetting five employees of Slovenia’s Commodity Reserves Agency over suspicion of irregularit...

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 1,687 new coronavirus infections for Wednesday as a week-on-week drop in cases continued, show fresh data by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Nine Covid-related deaths were recorded, according to gover...

Ljubljana – After failing to get another term as CEO of the energy trader GEN-I, Robert Golob is entering politics. He told the newspaper Delo his decision to get active in politics through a non-partisan movement was final. He is not ruling ou...

Krško – GEN-I, an energy group specialised in electricity trading, plans to invest over a billion euro into renewables, energy efficiency and storage and digital platforms by 2030, thus creating more than 700 new green jobs. GEN-I, which alrea...