Portorož – The Piran/Portorož Jazz Festival gets under way at the Slovenian seaside on Wednesday evening. Various venues in coastal towns will be home to blues, salsa, bossa nova, Cuban music and tango until Saturday, with performance by the ...

Ljubljana – MPs rejected on Wednesday the Democrats’ (SDS) motion for a referendum on the opposition party’s own legislative proposal to scrap the compulsory subscription fee for public broadcaster RTV Slovenija. Also voted down was...

Ljubljana – The parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee endorsed on Wednesday motions for Slovenia to sign the NATO accession protocols of Sweden and Finland. Both countries decided to apply for NATO membership due to Russia’s attack on Uk...

Ljubljana – The Ministry of Economic Development and Technology has decided to distribute almost EUR 1.83 million to ten airlines in a public tender for subsidies to improve Slovenia’s air connectivity with the world. The selected airline...

Ljubljana – The number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in Slovenia on Tuesday is more than double of the figure from a week ago, as 1,056 cases were detected yesterday. The number of patients hospitalised with Covid as their primary conditio...

Velenje – Slovenian home appliances maker Gorenje will be supplied by a new dedicated train from the Port of Trieste, which will deliver raw materials and components to Velenje twice a week. The first delivery with the Hisense train was made on...

Ljubljana – After her predecessor launched proceedings for the eviction of several NGOs renting out the Culture Ministry’s premises in Ljubljana’s Metelkova Street, Asta Vrečko, the new culture minister, announced on Wednesday that...

Ljubljana – The opposition Democrats (SDS) have initiated a referendum on the act governing the composition of government in a bid to thwart the new government’s plans to expand the number of ministries. The party submitted 2,500 voter si...

Ljubljana – Slovenian Danaja Grebenc won the 18th Diatonic Accordion European Championship in the Italian town of Attimis in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region on Sunday with the jury giving her a score of 100/100 points, her mentor Klemen Rošer...

Ljubljana – The government has approved motions for Slovenia to sign the NATO accession protocols of Sweden and Finland. A session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee has been called for tomorrow morning to discuss the two motions. Th...