After a campaign that saw many twists and turns, Slovenians will head to the polls on Sunday to cast their vote in the presidential election although the country’s fifth president is not expected to be elected until the run-off on 13 November. ...

The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) will delight film lovers for the 33rd time between 9 and 20 November, this time with 90 feature-length and some 30 short films. Programme director Simon Popek told the press on Thursday that while the...

A total of 267 pairs of white stork nested in Slovenia this year, which is the highest number since 1999, when the Bird Watching Association started keeping record. The number of storks has been rising in all Slovenia’s regions bar the Prekmurj...

Slovenia will receive almost EUR 91 million from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to modernise its railway infrastructure. Almost EUR 57 million will be spend to upgrade the Jesenice railway station, and over EUR 34 million for modernising severa...

Frankfurt, 20 October – Slovenia was officially declared the guest of honour at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair at an event at this year’s iteration of the fair on Thursday featuring the fair’s director Juergen Boos, Cultural Minister ...

Ljubljana, 20 October – Female entrepreneurship is increasingly important in Slovenia and early entrepreneurial activity has been increasing among women for the forth consecutive year, show data by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Ten years...

The rising costs of energy are becoming a significant concern for the organisers of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica this winter. While the estimated cost of the event has already increased by 14% due to inflation, the cost of electr...

Historic towns across Slovenia are grappling with negative demographic trends and buildings falling to ruin due to lack of money or ownership issues. To stop the negative trends, the towns would like the state to step in to create a special property ...

A group of Slovenian public figures has urged the government to call on the EU and NATO to come up with a strong diplomatic and political peace initiative and send a delegation to Moscow to assess Russia’s willingness to negotiate. The group...

Ljubljana, 18 October – A digital remastered copy of the first Slovenian silent feature-length film V Kraljestvu Zlatoroga (In the Realm of the Goldhorn) will premiere in Ljubljana’s Cankarjev Dom arts centre this evening. A quartet led b...