Slovenia pledged its continued support for Ukraine in its defence against Russia as the National Security Council convened its first formal session under the watch of Prime Minister Robert Golob on 30 November. Speaking to reporters after the meeting...

A major exhibition on Matej Sternen (1870-1949), arguably the most prolific of Slovenia’s four major Impressionist painters, has opened at the National Gallery in Ljubljana, featuring 74 of his paintings, 146 prints and drawings as well as his ...

A war of words has broken out between the leaders of Slovenia’s main opposition parties. The erstwhile close allies are at loggerheads after a referendum at which three government laws which the SDS, the largest opposition party, sought to brin...

Slovenia’s annual inflation rate ticked up slightly to 10% in November, after having briefly dropped below the 10% threshold for the first time in months. Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which were up by 19%, were the single biggest...

Slovenia has been planning an extension to the National and University Library (NUK) for decades, but now NUK II, as the project is known, is to come to life at last with construction set to begin in 2023. Visiting NUK on 29 November, Prime Minister ...

Joco Žnidaršič, an award-winning Slovenian photographer who was photo editor at the newspaper Delo for 24 years until his retirement in 1998, died on 28 November aged 84. His iconic photographs include that of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet le...

Slovenia’s largest natural gas trader Geoplin has announced it has received an extension of a liquidity loan agreement from its majority shareholder, the energy group Petrol, and will not need a capital injection from the state in the current m...

A senior member of the opposition Democratic Party (SDS) has triggered a rare rebuke from Germany after a defeat his party suffered in a referendum on 27 November prompted him to compare the situation in Slovenia to that in Germany the year that Adol...

The Kanin mountain range has long been a haven for speleology and hydrological research. The latest findings show that more than one tenth of the world’s known caves deeper than 1,000 metres are located there. The members of seven Slovenian cav...

The National Assembly passed a bill on 28 November that reverses major portions of an income tax reform adopted earlier this year under the previous government. Most notably, a progressive increase in the general tax relief for all earners has been s...