Brdo pri Kranju – Slovenia will formally take over the six-month presidency of the Council of the EU on Thursday, focussing on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery, enhancing resilience to future crises, and the EU’s enlargement. T...

Ljubljana – Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik participated via videolink on Wednesday in a session of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, calling for closer cooperation between task forces that operate under the pa...

Ljubljana – National Assembly President Igor Zorčič symbolically took over from Portugal the parliamentary dimension of the presidency of the Council of the EU on Wednesday alongside National Council President Alojz Kovšca. Slovenia’s ...

Ljubljana – More restrictions on the services sector will be lifted on Monday, the government decided at a session held as part of its visit to the Podravje region on Wednesday. Casinos will fully reopen and there will be no more restrictions o...

Rennes – Slovenian cycling star Tadej Pogačar won stage five of the Tour de France race on Wednesday. Last year’s winner of the Tour was 19 seconds faster than Stefan Küng from Switzerland in the 27.2-kilometre individual time trial bet...

Ljubljana – The Slovenian government is overseeing an increasingly systematic effort to undermine critical media, a coalition of press freedom organisations and journalism groups warned in a report released on Wednesday after conducting a virtu...

Ljubljana – A group of academics affiliated with the anti-government protest movement has mounted a new attempt to bring centre-left opposition parties together to form a pre-election coalition, drawing on the manifesto of the ill-fated Constit...

Mojstrana – A new 290-kilometre circular cycling trail that explores the Julian Alps in north-western Slovenia was inaugurated in Mojstrana on Wednesday. The Juliana Bike trail features seven stages of around 40 kilometres each, and is expected...

Ljubljana – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovenia increased by 2.4% to EUR 16.6 billion last year despite there being no major takeovers like the year before, according to a fresh report from the central bank. Austria ranks as the biggest...

Recent studies show that despite all the effort, gender equality in the workplace is not only not advancing but also decreasing. This situation has been, indeed, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent panel discussion with high-level rep...