PRESS RELEASES

2. 4. 2010 Grum Award Goes to Three Plays for the First Time Kranj - The Slavko Grum Award for the most original theatre text was this year for the first time conferred on three authors. Ivo Prijatelj, Simona Semenic and Ivo Svetina accepted the award at the closing ceremony of the 40th...

11. 3. 2010 Conference "Together for the European Union: Contribution of the Western Balkans to the European Future" On Saturday, 20 March 2010 a conference 'Together for the European Union: the Contribution of the Western Balkans to European Future' will take place at Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia. The conference will be hosted by the Prime...

15. 2. 2010 Slovenia House Now Open A pleasant get-together and a surprise for the evening marked the opening of the Slovenia House in the heart of Whistler Village. Although the weather in Whistler is far from a winter fairy-tale, the Slovenia House was all about...

5. 2. 2010 Slovenia House at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games For the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Olympic Committee of Slovenia (OCS) and the Government Communication Office (UKOM) together with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Ottawa are organising Slovenia House,...

15. 12. 2009 Promotional Presentation of Slovenia in Egypt – Cairo, 15 December 2009 During the official visit of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, to Egypt, a promotional presentation of Slovenia took place in Cairo. As part of the Slovenian-Egyptian business conference, Slovenia was presented in...

6. 11. 2009 Inauguration of "Our Rights" exhibition in Budapest The inauguration ceremony of the exhibition in Budapest relating to education on the rights of the child, "Our Rights", will be held in the business building of the Hungarian Parliament on Monday, 9 November 2009 at...

4. 11. 2009 The 'Ljubljana Process – Rehabilitating our Common Heritage' exhibition moves from Strasbourg to Ljubljana The exhibition 'Ljubljana Process – Rehabilitating our Common Heritage' is the result of one of the most successful and well-known projects in South-East Europe, the 'Integrated Rehabilitation Project Plan/Survey of the...

4. 11. 2009 Slovenia and Croatia Sign Arbitration Agreement PM Borut Pahor and his Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor signed in Stockholm on Wednesday an arbitration agreement which is expected to bring the overdue solution to the 18-year border dispute. On behalf of the Swedish EU...

13. 10. 2009 A second group of Palestinian children has arrived in Slovenia The latest rehabilitation programme includes 11 children from Gaza aged 6–15 who were victims of clashes between the Israeli army and Hamas which took place at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009. Slovenia hosted the first...

1. 10. 2009 Women Earned 92% of Average Gross Men's Pay in 2007 The average gross monthly pay for women in Slovenia in 2007 was more than EUR 100 lower than that for men, representing 92.2% of the average gross earnings for men, down 0.9 percentage points year-on-year, according to the...