The Japanese robotics company Yaskawa has laid the foundation stone for two new facilities next to its existing robots plant in Kočevje, south Slovenia, in an investment valued at €32 million. Yaskawa, which also operates two plants in Ribnica nea...

The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Serbian chargé d'affaires in Ljubljana over Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's recent offensive statements about Slovenia after a UN Security Council session dedicated to Kosovo. The decision comes after Vu�...

The Slovenian pharmaceutical company Krka is celebrating its 70th anniversary. A leading generics group, Krka today manufactures over 1,000 products, which are used by more than 100 million people in 70 countries. "Our products are used to manage all...

A Slovenian player has won €60 million, the largest lottery taking in the country to date, in the transnational lottery Eurojackpot, the Slovenian national lottery has announced. The Slovenian split the €120 million jackpot with a German player b...

The National Assembly has passed a controversial reform energy bill, ending months of heated debates centred on provisions on the burning of natural gas and wood. While a ban on gas boilers in new homes has been retained despite protests from the ind...

Janja Garnbret, the world's best sport climber, who will be defending her Olympic gold in Paris this year, has become the hero of a picture book called Janja and the Magic Flower. The book, released in Slovenian and English, was launched in Ljubljana...

Slovenian police conducted searches at two dozen locations on 23 April as part of a probe into allegations of bribery at the state-run motorway company DARS under the previous management. The police said six persons were suspected of abuse of office ...

Slovenian Railways is launching a new passenger service running from Villa Opicina above Trieste in Italy to Rijeka in Croatia and back via Slovenia. The new service, a result of cooperation with Croatian and Italian partners, will run daily from 24 ...

Boštjan Noč, the long-serving head of the Slovenian Beekeeping Association, has been elected the first president of the European Beekeeping Association (EBA), two months after the founding members decided that their association will have its seat i...

Revoz, the Slovenian subsidiary of the French car manufacturer Renault, has reported a doubling of its profit on lower sales for last year as a decision is expected shortly on whether the plant will start producing a new version of the electric Twing...

Together with the heads of state of Slovenia's neighbouring countries, President Nataša Pirc Musar promoted open borders within the EU and the bloc's enlargement at a high-profile event she hosted on 22 April to mark the 20th anniversary of Slovenia...

A kiosk designed by Slovenia's greatest architect Jože Plečnik (1872-1957) has officially reopened in Ljubljana's Prešeren Square to give up-and-coming entrepreneurs a boost. Located next to the Triple Bridge, another of the architect's masterpiec...

Diesel will become cheaper than regular petrol in Slovenia for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic over four years ago, as regulated prices change on 23 April. Regulated prices apply at fuel stations outside the motorway network. ...

The first two instruments made from the wood of a Stone-Age silver fir that was discovered in a pond in the west of the country made their concert debut in Ljubljana on 20 April. The premiering lyre and flute were just part of the show in which Bakal...

Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar has proved unbeatable yet again, flying solo to win the Liège-Bastogne-Liege, the oldest of the five cycling Monuments, for his 70th career win a year after fracturing his wrist at the same race. Leaving the peloton an...

Zero-proof beverages are a major global hit and the Slovenian company Vera Spirits has made a name for itself in the alcohol-free spirits market, exporting overseas to countries such as the US and Canada. The company was founded by Luka Nagode and Ur...

The UKC Ljubljana medical centre has recently performed a new treatment for an incurable type of prostate cancer in what was the first time the therapy was rolled out in Slovenia. A major milestone in the fight against the most common cancer in men, ...

Slovenia has joined the Artemis Accords, a set of principles for cooperation in the civil exploration and use of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids for peaceful purposes. The step paves the way for cooperation in the US space programmes. Slovenia b...

The Swiss generics group Sandoz has laid the foundation stone for a new biosimilars development centre in Ljubljana. Slated for completion in 2026, the US$90 million investment will create around 200 jobs. The new centre will be Sandoz's main hub for...

Like much of the country, Ljubljana is in dire need of affordable rental housing. That need will be alleviated a little with 88 new non-profit rental flats inaugurated on 18 April. The apartments are located in a new housing estate in Zelena Jama, ne...

The Slovenian exhaust system manufacturer Akrapovič has signed a multi-year agreement with the Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari that will see Akrapovič become a technical partner for Ferrari Hypercar, which competes in the FIA World Enduranc...

Slovenian minority member Barbara Antolić Vupora has been re-elected to the Croatian parliament on a party ticket, although officially the community will be represented by a member of the Bosniak minority. Running for the Social Democratic Party of ...

Accompanied by a sizeable business delegation, Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon is visiting China on a four-day official trip aimed at boosting political dialogue and trade. With both countries currently sitting in the UN Security Council, glob...

Slovenia has inaugurated its pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale. It features a work by conceptual artist Nika Špan, displayed in a park between the main exhibition venues of the Arsenale and Giardini. An unusual nomadic structure, Špan's Gard...

A day after the flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics was lit in Olympia, Slovenians have sent their own torch to tour the country with the nation's first Olympic medallist making the first leg. The Slovenian torch started its journey in Lendava, northea...

Two Cistercian monasteries are the latest Slovenian sites to win the European Heritage Label, a title awarded by the European Commission to what it says are milestones in the creation of today's Europe. Seven sites were picked for the title this year...

Businessman Sergej Racman, once one of the wealthiest Slovenians, has started serving prison time for cutting off creditors in the 2014 sale of the largest cinema complex in the country. Racman, who started off in stock trading and finance before mov...

Shorts are out and winter coats and gloves are back in in Slovenia after temperature rollercoaster brought down readings by up to 26 degrees Celsius in a single day in a new record. After more than ten days of unseasonably warm, summer-like weather w...

The impact of the green transition on competitiveness was one of the challenges discussed at the annual Day of German-Slovenian Business, organised by the German-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the IEDC - Bled School of Management on 16...

Cooperation in new technologies, in particular green hydrogen, ranked prominently as Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon visited Japan on 15 and 16 April accompanied by a business delegation, before heading on to China. Fajon, the first Slovenian ...

Slovenia's pilot geothermal power station, tapping into an abandoned wellbore in the Lendava area, has produced the first kilowatts of electricity but tests have shown that modifications will be required for viable long-term energy generation. Locate...

Slovenian astrophysicists Andreja Gomboc and Tomaž Zwitter have been part of a team that discovered the most massive stellar black hole yet found in the Milky Way. Unlike similar discoveries in distant galaxies, this one allows more in-depth researc...

The logistics company DHL Express Slovenija has begun building a new centre in the vicinity of Ljubljana Airport in Brnik to step up its capacity. The €21 million investment is expected to be completed next year. The building, which is to span 8,40...

Roberto Battelli, a former MP who represented the Italian ethnic minority in Slovenia , has died, aged 69. Battelli served in parliament for seven terms, from 1992 to 2018. Born in 1954 in Pula, Croatia, Battelli entered politics after an initial car...

Slovenia is hosting the 56th PEN International Writers' Meeting in what is an opportunity to foster dialogue between different opinions and discuss armed conflicts raging worldwide, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and the impact of natural di...

New buildings with a roof area over 1,000 square metres and new car parks with a surface area exceeding that size will as a rule have to have solar panels installed under new rules that came into force on 13 April. Exempt from the rule will be facili...

The Slovenian women's handball team has qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in a historic first for the country's women athletes in team sports. Slovenia secured the ticket by defeating Montenegro 30:26 in the last match of a qualifying t...

The SNG Maribor Ballet ensemble has made a major mark internationally over the past three decades, owing in great part to its artistic director, Romanian-born choreographer Edward Clug. Apart from his ensemble, Clug has been creating productions for ...

Economy Minister Matjaž Han has been elected new leader of the Social Democrats (SD) to succeed Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, who stepped aside amid the turmoil over a scandal surrounding the purchase of a run-down Ljubljana building meant to house ...

Music is known to have beneficial effects on living organisms and a project in which a red wine was fermented and matured to the music of Piran-born composer Giuseppe Tartini has proved just that. Tartini 330 - Sound Experience by Sara is a multi-yea...

Slovenia has opened an embassy in the Philippines with the relevant decree by President Nataša Pirc Musar published in the Official Gazette on 12 April. Slovenia opened a consulate general in Manila last year to facilitate procedures for the employm...

The University of Trieste has honoured Italian President Sergio Mattarella and former Slovenian President Borut Pahor with honorary doctorates for their reconciliation efforts and for standing up against the narrow-mindedness of nationalist egotism. ...

Victoria Harrison has been appointed the UK's next ambassador to Slovenia. As the country's first blind ambassador she will succeed Tiffany Sadler in August, the UK embassy in Ljubljana announced on 12 April. Harrison will be the first ambassador to ...

Russia has declared a Slovenian diplomat serving at the Slovenian embassy in Moscow persona non grata in retaliation for Slovenia expelling a Russian diplomat in March. The Russian Foreign Ministry notified Slovenian Ambassador in Moscow Darja Bavda�...

Information Commissioner Mojca Prelesnik has been appointed new director of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA). She will assume the post on 18 July, when her term at her current job ends. Prelesnik, 55, was appointed in an unanimous decision by the STA...

Slovenia has announced it will support a resolution on Palestine's membership of the United Nations in a vote at the UN Security Council next week, along with France and Malta. "Slovenia, together with France and Malta, will raise its hand in support...

The Ljubljana District Court has sentenced four Slovenians to jail for their involvement in an email scam that defrauded the British national broadcaster BBC of €336,000. A fifth defendant has been acquitted. Several Slovenian newspapers have repor...

Slovenia has been a target of yet another cyberattack with several government websites rendered inaccessible, including that of the central bank. The authorities say the situation is under control. Vojko Volk, a state secretary at the prime minister'...

Slovenian police have been facing public criticism over the way they handled an online school shooting threat that prompted schools to step up security in recent days. The interior minister has ordered a review. The threat was made on 2 April in the ...

The European Commission has registered a Slovenian-coordinated European Citizens' Initiative which aims to collect one million signatures in support of a financial mechanism that would ensure accessible and safe abortions for women across Europe. The...