Ljubljana – Bars and restaurants will be allowed to serve guests indoors across the country and large hotels will be able to offer half their rooms to guests from Monday as part of an easing of restrictions in tourism and hospitality amidst a g...

Ljubljana – The opposition Left has called for Slovenia and the EU to join the US in the proposal to temporarily lift patent protections for vaccines against Covid-19. “If the EU wants to assume a leading global role it claims for itself,...

Ljubljana – Bojan Veselinovič, the director of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), has announced legal action against Prime Minister Janez Janša after he implied on Twitter that Veselinovič had been involved in the “murder” of form...

Ljubljana – MPs will vote on an impeachment motion against Prime Minister Janez Janša at a parliamentary session starting on Monday, 17 May, the college of deputy leaders decided today. The motion had been filed by the opposition Marjan Šarec...

Ljubljana – As debate continues in Slovenia on a coal phaseout strategy, Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak set out the size of the challenge faced by the energy industry to make up for the loss of key sources of energy while having to meet gro...

Luxembourg – Slovenia was below the EU average in terms of its reduction in CO2 emissions last year. Preliminary data show that the EU average was at 10%, whereas Slovenia managed to cut CO2 emissions by 6%, Eurostat has reported. The overall r...

Ljubljana – The Constitutional Court has ruled the legislative amendments that ban most shops from being open on Sundays is not in contravention of the constitution as claimed by several retail companies. In a unanimous decision announced on Fr...

Ljubljana – Parliamentary Speaker Igor Zorčič and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič spoke about the importance of common European values, democracy, the rule of law and media freedom, on the occasion of Europe Day. ...

Ljubljana – The presidents of 21 EU member states have addressed a letter to Europeans on the eve of the Conference on the Future of Europe, inviting them to take part in shaping a common European future. The initiative came from the Slovenian ...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša announced on Twitter on Thursday that all adults under 50 will start to get vaccinated on Monday. “We will have enough vaccine for everyone by summer. Let’s be responsible to ourselves and oth...