Ljubljana – Slovenia is going into its third lockdown in just over a year on Thursday, as it wants to buy time for vaccination and stem the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, driven by the highly virulent British variant. The lockdown is p...

Ljubljana – A majority of Slovenians would welcome better transparency and quality as well as the use of mobile applications in taxi services, a survey by pollster Valicon has shown. Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec sees this as a clear e...

Ljubljana – Sustainable strategic business transformation offers visible results as early as it is introduced and it is never too late to start, agreed participants of a conference hosted by the Spirit Slovenia agency on Wednesday. Business exe...

Ljubljana – Four business chambers or associations associated in an Economic Circle initiative urged the government to be more ambitious in its debureaucratisation drive and lower the planned social security cap, as they presented a number of i...

Lipica – The contract for principal works on the Črni Kal-Koper section of the Divača-Koper rail track was signed on Wednesday with officials announcing the start of works in May. “Today is a big day for the Slovenian economy, developme...

Postojna – All six municipalities in Primorsko-Notranja, a region in the south-west of the country, have signed a contract to set up a regional business incubator Perspektiva in a bid to provide systemic leverage to encourage entrepreneurship t...

Ljubljana – The supervisory board of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) has called on the government to immediately settle all of its outstanding liabilities to the STA and to comply with its legal obligations to finance the STA public service. T...

Ljubljana – Slovenia confirmed 1,558 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since 2 February, as the share of positive tests continued to climb, exceeding 21% for the first time since mid-February, the latest government d...

Washington – The US Department of State has released the 2020 Human Rights international report in which it also analyses the situation in Slovenia. Attacks on media and harassment of journalists in the country feature more prominently than eve...

Ljubljana – Igor Zorčič remains speaker of the National Assembly. The coalition failed with a motion to dismiss him Tuesday after he quit the Modern Centre Party (SMC) deputy group, as 45 voted in favour of the dismissal, one vote short of th...