Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has formally informed the National Electoral Commission (DVK) that he will sign a presidential decree for a general election on 9 February, setting Sunday, 24 April, as the election date. This is in line with h...

Strasbourg – The European Parliament has endorsed Jorg Kristijan Petrovič, Slovenia’s candidate for the European Court of Auditors. Wednesday’s non-binding vote was 487 in favour and 196 against with 11 abstentions. The endorsement...

Ljubljana – A total of 10,288 new coronavirus cases were reported in Slovenia for Wednesday, a day after a record of more than 12,000 infections was confirmed, show fresh official data. Roughly three weeks into the Omicron-driven wave, hospital...

Ljubljana – The Slovenian lynx population appears to have come back from the brink of extinction and is now thriving thanks to animals that had been relocated from Romania and Slovakia to expand the heavily inbred population’s gene pool. ...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has said as he responded to PM Janez Janša’s statements about China and Taiwan that ever since Slovenia and China established diplomatic relations, Slovenia has consistently advocated a one-China princip...

Ljubljana – The Finance Committee okayed on Thursday changes to the gaming act that introduce partial liberalisation of the field and allow for multiple organisers of classic games of chance. The MPs added an amendment under which a possible sh...

Ljubljana – Prominent Slovenian health experts said at a round table on Wednesday that epidemiologists should have had a major say in the management of the Covid-19 epidemic in Slovenia, with some adding that there was an unclear line between t...

Maribor – Police have arrested a 53-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man from Slovenia, and a 56-year-old Serbian woman who are suspected of human trafficking after police received reports of them forcing women into prostitution, the Maribor Po...

Ljubljana – Overwhelmed with PCR test samples, the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food (HLZOH) started sending part of them to Germany for analysis. The lab Eurofins processes them in 48 hours, which is in line with the new PCR ...

Ljubljana – The supervisory board of the NLB bank appointed on Thursday Hedvika Usenik, Antonio Argir and Andrej Lasič to the management board to expand it from three to six members. Their five-year terms will start after approval from banking...