Prime Minister Janez Jansa began his two-day official visit to Greece on Monday by meeting his Greek counterpart Kostas Karamanlis. While the two PMs praised excellent bilateral relations and urged action to expand economic ties between the two nations, the foreign and economic ministers of both sides signed several memorandums on cooperation.
Jansa also addressed a Greek-Slovenian business conference.
Although admitting that trade was currently modest, Jansa and Karamanlis said that trends were positive. "Politics is here to create the conditions, while business executives must do business," Jansa said following a meeting with his opposite number at the outset of his two-day official visit to Athens.
Slovenia and Peru will do everything in their power to make the EU-Latin America/Caribbean (LAC) summit to be held in Lima during Slovenia's EU presidency next year a success. The two countries made this commitment as Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel held talks in Lima on Tuesday as part of his Latin America tour. More »
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel highlighted the importance of the joint fight against climate change as he addressed an EU-Rio Group ministerial in the Dominican Republic on Friday. This remains a priority for Slovenia as well as the EU in the coming years, he said. More »
Prime Minister Janez Jansa began his two-day official visit to Greece on Monday by meeting his Greek counterpart Kostas Karamanlis. While the two PMs praised excellent bilateral relations and urged action to expand economic ties between the two nations, the foreign and economic ministers of both sides signed several memorandums on cooperation. Jansa also addressed a Greek-Slovenian business conference. More »
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Moldovan counterpart Vasile Tarlev on Wednesday called for stronger business ties between the two countries in an effort to boost the currently modest volume of trade. More »
Dozens of Slovenian owners of illegally build holiday homes in Istria, Croatia, are being urged to file a class-action lawsuit against Croatia due to perceived irregularities in the demolition proceedings. More »
A Slovenian citizen has been given the green light by the Croatian Justice Ministry to purchase a property in Croatia in a move that puts an end to the recent dispute over real estate reciprocity for Slovenia. More »
Members of the parliamentary Defence Committee visited on Tuesday Slovenian soldiers taking part in the peace-keeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to the committee's chair, Anton Anderlic, the visiting MPs got positive reviews of the job performed by Slovenian troops. More »
The Regional Development Agency in Maribor presented on Thursday Intra, a project which aims to boost competitiveness of small and mid-sized companies from border regions and help them enter foreign markets. More »
Home appliance group Gorenje acquired last week building permits for the construction of a new factory in Sostanj, 60 km NE of Ljubljana, which will produce, among other things, parts for eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers built by Finnish defence contractor Patria. More »
Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk has said that Slovenia is on track to meeting the budget objectives as agreed by the ministers of the 13 eurozone members in Berlin on Friday. More »
Home appliance group Gorenje announced on Friday that it would relocate its facilities for the production of kitchens from the Austrian town of Freistadt to Maribor, where the company already has a modern technological and logistical centre for kitchen production. More »
The government is looking for a strategic partner for the refinery Nafta Lendava. In line with government plans, the refinery is meant to be sold by the end of the year, however, the Economy Ministry said it would give priority to finding a suitable investor rather than selling in time. More »
Slovenia's registered unemployment rate was 8.4% in February 2007, 0.3 percentage points down over January, the national Statistics Office said on Tuesday. More »
Slovenian households spent 0.4% of their outgoings (almost EUR 62) on books in 2004, 0.1 percentage point more than in 1995, the National Statistics Office has said ahead of the Word Book Day, celebrated on Monday. More »
EU agriculture ministers debated in Brussels on Wednesday measures to combat illegal fishing, with Slovenia's Iztok Jarc also holding a short meeting with EU Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Commissioner Joe Borg on the issue. More »
Stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood may help cure an adult later in life when facing a serious illness. Parents that would like to give their newborns a potential safety net health-wise are now able to do so also in Slovenia, according to a report. More »
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Jure Zupan and non-resident Egyptian Ambassador to Slovenia Hisham El-Zimaity on Monday signed a protocol on cooperation in science and technology. More »
European Affairs State Secretary Janez Lenarcic believes that the constitutional treaty, signed by the then EU members in 2004 in Rome, presents a "good compromise for improving the functioning of the EU" and should be "taken into consideration in drafting a new deal". More »
EU's enlargement to the Western Balkans should be the bloc's priority, as peace and stability in the region cannot be secured without its European prospects, French international relations expert Jacques Rupnik told a meeting in Ljubljana. However, this enlargement will require a new approach, Rupnik said at Tuesday's panel. More »
Slovenia more than doubled the number of cases it sent in 2006 to Eurojust compared to 2005. While the country asked for help in solving 15 cases of serious cross-border and organised crime in 2005, the number rose to 36 last year, Slovenian Eurojust representative Malci Gabrijelcic said. More »
Slovenian citizens believe that the EU's role in environmental and energy policy should be to supply EU citizens with unbiased information and to introduce measures that encourage economical energy use and the production of clean energy, according to the results of an EU-wide project presented in Ljubljana on Friday. More »
Slovenia has brought its dispute with Croatia over funds for the decommissioning of the Krsko Nuclear Power Plant (NEK) to the attention of the European Commission, which however has not sided with either country. "Croatia has joint responsibility with Slovenia for the decommissioning and waste management liabilities relating to the NEK," a Commission spokesperson stressed. More »
The Slovenian Armed Forces, the NATO Air Space Control Centre and Italian and Hungarian air forces on Thursday successfully completed a military exercise aimed at testing the functioning of airspace control in Slovenia, head of the National Air Defence Centre Blaz Pavlin told the press. More »
Budget airline Ryanair has sold more than 3,000 tickets for scheduled flights between Maribor and London's Stansted airport even before these will be launched on 7 June, airline officials told the press on Thursday. More »
A theatre-musical extravaganza, "The Bacchae", starring a Slovenian pop icon, is to tour the stages of Turkey in the following week, according to the Nova Gorica-based SNG theatre, which produced the play in cooperation with the Trieste-based Slovenian theatre. More »
Slovenian artist Saso Sedlacek opened on Wednesday his "Recycling Strategies" at the European Commission building in Brussels. "We do not get rid of waste just by throwing it away," EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik described the relevance of the exhibition which highlights potential uses of waste. More »
The 12th Slovenian Book Days in Ljubljana kicked off at the Zvezda Park on Monday, World Book Day. Speaking at the opening, Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti said that books were the anchor of culture and a source of answers to essential questions. More »
An international commission assessing candidates for the European Capital of Culture 2012 has recommended that Slovenia's second-largest city Maribor receive the title. The commission's opinion is not binding and the final decision will be made by the government, Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti told the press on Monday. More »
Swiss catering company Marche has baked a 400-metre-long strawberry cake in an attempt to make it to the Guinness Book of Records. The cake was sliced into 5,000 pieces and sold at 1 euro a piece in Ljubljana's Zvezda Park on Saturday. More »
The participants of a panel on the impact of climate change on tourism agreed on Thursday that certain consequences of climate change could not be avoided and all sectors, including tourism, had to adapt accordingly. More »
Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said on Friday that Slovenia supported the joint entry of all candidates to the Schengen no-border zone, however the countries needed to meet the criteria first. Mate, presenting the schedule for Schengen entry at the sidelines of a ministerial in Luxembourg, added that events were unravelling according to plan. More »
The government visited the NE region of Podravje on Wednesday in the second round of visits to the 12 Slovenian statistical regions, with Prime Minister Janez Jansa assessing that the region around Maribor could advance from being the 7th to become the fourth or even third most developed Slovenian region.
Local Government and Regional Development Minister Ivan Zagar opened in Bled on Friday a two-day meeting of mayors and other local officials by presenting three key areas for the development of municipalities and state: the funding of municipalities act, direct incentives and the establishment of provinces. More »
Riccardo Illy, premier of the Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, has addressed a letter to Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa over the environmental impact of a planned railroad link between the Slovenian port of Koper and the transport hub of Divaca, public broadcaster Radio Slovenija reported on Wednesday. More »
Foreign Minister Dimtrij Rupel continued his visit to Argentina on Friday by meeting representatives of the Slovenian community there. Rupel said he thanked his Argentinian hosts for everything Argentina offered to the Slovenians who were looking for a new home. More »
Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and her host and opposite number Dragutin Mate agreed in Brdo pri Kranju on Tuesday that Slovenia would share its EU accession experience in preventing organised crime, terrorism and illegal migration. More »
The government visited the NE region of Podravje on Wednesday in the second round of visits to the 12 Slovenian statistical regions, with Prime Minister Janez Jansa assessing that the region around Maribor could advance from being the 7th to become the fourth or even third most developed Slovenian region. More »
The government on Thursday adopted a bill on alternative and complementary medicine, a branch of medicine that has so far not been regulated by law. More »
The government adopted on Thursday amendments to the anti-smoking act, which introduce bans on smoking in all indoor public and work places. Also being sent to parliament are amendments to the health insurance act and the bill on quality and safety of human tissues and cells for the purposes of medical treatment. More »
The Labour Force Survey-based unemployment rate in Slovenia stood at 6% last year, down 0.5% percentage points over 2005, according to the National Statistics Office. More »
The parliamentary Defence Committee discussed on Thursday reports on the activities of Slovenian soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the possibility for Slovenia to get a multi-function vessel and anti-aircraft batteries in exchange for part of Russia's clearing debt. More »
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ranked Slovenia among advanced economies in its world economic outlook in what is the first time ever. The document, released on Wednesday, forecasts that Slovenia's economic growth will slow down to 4.5% in 2007 and 4% in 2008, from 5.2% in 2006. More »
Participants in a panel on the "Sale of State Property" organised on Thursday by the National Council agreed that if Slovenia was to stay competitive, it must not rely solely on foreign investment or investment abroad, but also needed powerful companies seated at home. More »
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) placed Slovenia among advanced economies in its 2006 economic report mainly because all countries of the eurozone belong to the group, Maja Bednas of the Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD), the government's think-tank, said on Thursday. More »
Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk attended on Sunday in Washington a session of the Development Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which concluded the two-day spring meeting of the two bodies. Bajuk also held several bilateral meetings devoted to Slovenia's cooperation with the IMF and the World Bank. More »
Seven Slovenian higher education institutions will send some 1,000 students and over 140 professors to foreign universities within the Erasmus student exchange programme this year, while 700 foreign students are to come to Slovenia, Higher Education Minister Jure Zupan told the press in Ljubljana on Tuesday. More »
European Affairs State Secretary Janez Lenarcic met on Wednesday French Secretary General for European Affairs Pascale Andreani to discuss the EU presidency in 2008, which will be held successively by Slovenia and France. More »
Slovenia's contribution to this-year's EU budget will be EUR 5m lower than planned, the European Commission said on Friday. Because of the 2006 surplus and due to active budget management the surplus in the EU budget is to amount to EUR 1.8bn this year, thus cutting the members' payments. More »
Finnish carrier Finnair has launched scheduled flights between Helsinki and Ljubljana on a route that is expected to carry 25,000 passengers a year. Embraer 190, which touched down on Brnik Airport for the first time on Easter Friday, will fly between Ljubljana and Helsinki four times a week. More »
A photographic exhibition devoted to American Indians opened at the Slovenian Museum of National Heritage in Ljubljana on Tuesday. The exhibition, entitled "The Holy Legacy - Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian", was an initiative of the US State Department. It will close on 2 May. More »
Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun and the translator of his poetry into German, Fabjan Hafner, are the recipients of this year's European Poetry Prize of the city of Muenster (Preis der Stadt Muenster fuer Europaeische Poesie). They will receive the award on 6 May, says the official homepage of the poetry festival "Lyrikertreffen Muenster". More »
Photographs of reflections replaced the numerous graffiti on the banks of the Ljubljanica, the river that flows through the Slovenian capital. The spring cleaning of street art was organised by the Ljubljana Municipality as part of the annual activity "Za lepso Ljubljano" (For a Prettier Ljubljana). More »
Tomaz Pandur, who has made his mark in the international theatre community with his extravagant projects, is coming back to his hometown after spending eleven years abroad. Pandur, a genius for some and a charlatan to others, will stage his latest show, "Tesla Electric Company", in Maribor in early May. More »
A plaque was unveiled on Monday at Zale, Ljubljana central cemetery, at a ceremony marking the awarding of the European Heritage Label to the Garden of All Saints, the part of the cemetery designed by Slovenia's greatest architect Joze Plecnik. More »
The Ljubljana City Museum is starting a series of events designed to showcase diversity with an exhibition on the Jewish religion and culture Monday evening. On Sunday the visitors will have a chance to taste some typical Jewish dishes and try a few traditional dance steps. More »
Miha Valic has recently become the first man to have climbed all major 4,000-metre peaks in the Alps in winter conditions. It took the Alpine guide from Ljubljana 102 days to climb all 82 highpointers on the official list of the UIAA, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Organisation. More »
Stanislav Pejovnik, the head of the Ljubljana Faculty of Chemistry, has replaced President Janez Drnovsek at the helm of the Movement for Justice and Development, an altruistic forum set up by Drnovsek. Pejovnik was elected at the movement's general assembly in Rogaska Slatina on Sunday. More »
Heads of parliamentary parties held a meeting on Friday, 6 April, with Prime Minister Janez Jansa on several foreign and home policy issues. The meeting discussed a possible resolution on the border with Croatia, a deal on cooperation before and during Slovenia's stint as EU president, the erased and the establishment of provinces.
Prime Minister Janez Jansa said after a meeting with party presidents that a resolution on the border with Croatia was not necessary at the moment. "No resolution would currently contribute to the faster solution of specific open issues with Croatia," he explained.
Prime Minister Janez Jansa believes a consensus is possible regarding the erased, one of the most controversial political issues in Slovenia. "The changed geometry in the National Assembly has in part contributed to greater readiness to seek a solution in a constitutional law, but only under the condition of a greater consensus on substantive solutions," Jansa said after Friday's meeting of party leaders. More »
Speaker of Parliament France Cukjati addressed Roma on Saturday, on the eve of World Roma Day. Speaking in the NE regional centre of Murska Sobota, Cukjati said that the Roma and the majority population have a wonderful opportunity to coexist. More »
Prime Minister Janez Jansa said after a meeting with party presidents on Friday that a resolution on the border with Croatia was not necessary at the moment. "No resolution would currently contribute to the faster solution of specific open issues with Croatia," he explained. More »
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is to set out on Thursday for a tour of Latin America. Aimed at establishing contacts ahead of Slovenia's stint as EU president in the first half of 2008, Rupel is to visit Argentina, Chile and Peru, while he will also attend a ministerial meeting of the EU and the Rio Group in the Dominican Republic. More »
Joze Romsek, director general of Slovenian police, discussed on Friday cooperation between the police forces of Slovenia and Croatia with his opposite number Marijan Benko as part of traditional talks prior to the start of the tourist season. More »
The government adopted on Thursday amendments to the act on civil procedure that will allow people to file claims and look at what stage they are via the internet. Court dealings will also be conducted over the internet, Justice Minister Lovro Sturm told the press after the session. More »
The government on Thursday endorsed the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the European Space Agency (ESA), which is expected to make Slovenia an ESA participating country in a matter of years. More »
The cabinet adopted on Thursday a bill on tonnage tax that will introduce a special tax regime for shipping companies in a bid to keep them headquartered in Slovenia, Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk told the press after the session. More »
The parliamentary Commission for Slovenians Abroad endorsed on Wednesday the efforts of Slovenian minorities in neighbouring countries for the economic cooperation between Slovenia and these countries and called on the government to consider the minorities' proposals for the elimination of obstacles to cooperation. More »
The Chief-of-Staff of the Swiss armed forces, General Christophe Keckeise, who was paying a two-day visit to Slovenia, praised on Tuesday the dynamic development of Slovenia since its independence and highlighted its stabilising role in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan. More »
The Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD), the government's economic think-tank, projects that Slovenia's gross domestic product will grow by 4.7% this year, up from its forecast of 4.3% of six months ago. Inflation is meanwhile expected to level off at 2.2%, down from 2.7% projected in the autumn. More »
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) announced on Thursday it would join a consortium of six Slovenian companies in opening a trade office in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg in May this year. More »
Perutnina Ptuj, Slovenia's largest poultry producer, is planning to build a factory in the town of Breza near Sarajevo this year. The products from the new factory will be sold in Bosnia-Herzegovina and other countries in the region, the company said on Friday as it hosted the Slovenian Mufti Nedzad Grabus. More »
Zavarovalnica Triglav, Slovenia's largest insurer, posted a net profit of EUR 29.8m for 2006, up 22% over the year before. "This was the most successful year for us in history," chairman Andrej Kocic told the press on Friday. More »
Slovenia has developed successfully over the past few years, managing to preserve quality of life and prosperity. However, it has been too slow to reduce pressure on the environment, according to a report by the Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD), a government think-tank. More »
European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik presented in Brussels on Wednesday the green paper on new perspectives for the European Research Area (ERA), saying that he was pushing above all for the free flow of knowledge to become the "fifth EU liberty". More »
A group of law experts has established the Slovenian Society for European Law. Headed by Verica Trstenjak, advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, this voluntary society aims to develop, implement and promote European law in theory and practice, the association wrote on Thursday. More »
Ziga Turk, the new minister without portfolio for development, was appointed on Thursday Mr. Lisbon, the national coordinator for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy. More »
Heads of parliamentary factions who met in Ljubljana on Friday at the invitation of Prime Minister Janez Jansa reached consensus to sign an agreement to work together in the run-up to and during Slovenia's EU presidency in the first half of 2008. More »
The Culture Ministry has drafted a bill founding a Public Agency for the Book, which presents a step towards "better affirmation of the book as a cultural good", minister Vasko Simoniti told the press on Tuesday as he presented the draft in Ljubljana. More »
Ljubljana Summer Festival director Darko Brlek announced on Thursday culture lovers could look forward to 70 events featuring 3,000 performers from 23 countries this year. The festival will kick off on 2 July with Alexander Borodin's "Prince Igor", a joint project of opera houses from Ljubljana, Maribor and Kiev. More »
In their Easter messages, Ljubljana Archbishop and Metropolitan Alojz Uran and Bishop of the Slovenian Lutheran Evangelical Church Geza Ernisa have emphasised that instances of the Christ's resurrection could be seen even today, giving people the right to hope and believe in life. More »
Two Slovenian culinary books, "Tartufi in Vino" (Truffles and Wine) and "The Cuisine of Slovenia, 100 Selected Dishes", were honoured with special awards at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Beijing on Saturday. More »
While student life may be synonymous with parties and occasional binge drinking, rarely does a college use it as a way of attracting new students. However, a small hospitality college in one of Slovenia's best-known tourist locations, Bled, has chosen to promote itself by making a record-breaking cocktail. More »
Having previously braved the Yangtze, Mississippi and Danube, Slovenian adventure swimmer Martin Strel is looking to book his fourth entry in the Guinness Book of World Records after completing a nearly 5,300-kilometre swim of the Amazon. More »
Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman country house near the village of Mosnje (NW) have called on the Motorway Company (DARS) to change the original plan under which the site would be buried, saving the find which could be turned into an archaeology park. More »
Easter, the biggest holiday on the Christian calendar, is celebrated in the predominantly Catholic Slovenia with family gatherings. Traditional Slovenian celebrations of the festival, which begins on Easter Friday and ends on Easter Monday, a public holiday, include the making and blessing of "pirhi", decorated Easter eggs. More »
The Health Ministry organised a news conference on artificial insemination on Wednesday prior to debate by parliament's Health Committee on the topic. Slovenia only trails Denmark in the number of children conceived by artificial insemination, State Secretary Dorjan Marusic told the press. More »
The government is expected to debate this week a law banning smoking in public places. The draft version of the document, which the Health Ministry unveiled to the public in January, featured bans on smoking in most enclosed public and work places. More »
The Strategic Council for Foreign Policy, an advisory body to the Foreign Ministry, debated on Wednesday the government's proposal for a resolution on the border of Croatia. Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel did not wish to discuss the content, he only said that the government would shortly "try to articulate the political will of Slovenian politics to Croatia." More »
Prime Minister Janez Jansa told the press in Berlin after the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the EU that the upbeat mood prevailing at the ceremony would make the search for a compromise on the EU constitution easier. Jansa said Sunday's celebrations have had a positive impact on the search for a compromise also in the countries that have failed to ratify the constitution so far.
A call on Croatia and Slovenia to resolve open issues in arbitration if negotiations are unsuccessful has been thrown out of the European Parliament's report on Croatia's progress towards accession, but the author of the report, MEP Hannes Swoboda, said after the vote at the Foreign Policy Committee on Tuesday that he would draw up a new proposal. More »
Slovenia's Dimitrij Rupel said on the sidelines of Friday's informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Bremen that while there were still "some differences and hesitation" with regard to the final version of UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's proposal for the status of Kosovo, the ministers agreed that they "appreciate Ahtisaari's efforts". More »
The British Council is closing its information centre in Ljubljana due to the change in the organisation's policy in the EU. About 2,400 books from the Club.UK will be donated to the Ljubljana-based Oton Zupancic Library, the director of the organisation Robert Monro told the press on Tuesday. More »
The government adopted on Thursday an initiative for the signing of an agreement between Slovenia and Switzerland on the launch of a cooperation programme aimed at reducing economic and social disparities in the expanded EU, the Government Communication Office said in a press release. More »
The government adopted on Thursday a bill on the control of national borders that is to guarantee thorough control of the border and transpose the provisions of the Schengen Borders Code, Interior Minister Dragutin Mate told the press. More »
Parliament on Friday ordered an inquiry into the disputed purchase of eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers for the Slovenian army, which had been requested by the opposition. More »
German discount grocer Lidl will enter the Slovenian market with the opening of 15 outlets in major Slovenian cities on Thursday. Ten more stores will follow shortly, Gregor Kosi, the director of sales of Lidl's Slovenian subsidiary, told the press on Tuesday. More »
Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak and his Dutch counterpart Maria van der Hoeven signed in The Hague on Wednesday an agreement on the mutual use of crude oil reserves and products. The document is part of an initiative for enhancing economic cooperation between the countries. More »
The food, energy and tourism holding Istrabenz generated revenues of EUR 704m in 2006, an increase of 21.8% over 2005. The holding also tripled its unconsolidated profit to EUR 40.5m, the company said on Wednesday. More »
Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak is to visit Zagreb on Tuesday to sign a ministerial declaration on the construction of a pan-European oil pipeline connecting the Romanian port of Constanta and Italy's port of Trieste. More »
Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power standards in Slovenia was 82% of the average for the 25 EU member states in 2005. This means that Slovenia has narrowed the development gap to the EU-25 by more than 4 percentage points since 2003, the National Statistics says, quoting data from Eurostat. More »
One out of three Slovenians would buy a property in Croatia if they had the money for it, according to a poll published in Wednesday's edition of daily Dnevnik. More »
Just over 36% of all employees in Slovenia received above-average gross wages in 2006, whereas the wages of the remaining 63.7% were below the national average (which was EUR 1,199.95 in September), according to data released by the National Statistics Office on Monday. More »
The Centre for Education in the Judiciary at the Justice Ministry has been transformed into an independent organisational unit in what is the culmination of a one-year twinning project between Slovenia and France. More »
The speakers at Wednesday's presentation of an eight-volume monograph entitled "Die Habsburgmonarchie 1848-1918" (The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918) agreed that the monograph was an important work shedding light on the former empire. More »
Slovenia shows good development in the information society indicators, although it is generally just behind EU averages, the European Commission said in its recently published annual information society i2010 report. More »
Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak said in Portoroz on Monday that Slovenia would encourage more intensively the producers of energy from renewable sources, also by ensuring the purchase of such energy. More »
The Dutch and Slovenian prime ministers shared the view in their meeting in The Hague on Wednesday that June would be a crucial month for deciding on a solution to the EU's institutional crisis. More »
The overwhelming majority of Slovenians (95%) believe that the euro switch was a success, a special Eurobarometer survey on the issue has found. According to the results published on Thursday, 96% of those polled said they had no major troubles in converting the former currency, tolars, into euros. More »
Slovenia has already submitted to the European Commission the strategic documents for the phasing of cohesion funds - the National Strategic Reference Framework and the operational programmes. The Commission is expected to confirm the documents in May, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner said on Monday. More »
Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, the vice-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised the Slovenian Armed Forces for the headway they made and their "significant contribution" to NATO operations as he paid an official visit to Slovenia on Friday. More »
Transport Minister Janez Bozic on Tuesday launched the 20th international construction fair Megra, saying that the estimated 5% growth and investment in transport infrastructure promised a bright future for the Slovenian construction industry. More »
The 39th International PEN meeting of writers, which took place at the lakeside resort of Bled between 28 March and 1 April, saw writers from 30 countries discuss endangered languages, reading as social event and post-totalitarian resistance. More »
The number of births in Slovenia has been decreasing despite the fact that the large generation born in the 70s is in the most fertile age, according to a panel held in Ljubljana on Tuesday. More »
The Strategic Council for Economic Development believes that EU projections which see the Slovenian population drop from the current 2 million to 1.9 million by 2050 would mean a drop in the number of the employed by 0.8% a year between 2025 and 2050 and, as a consequence, a slow down in the economic growth. More »
Ski centres Krvavec, Kope, and Celjska koca were proclaimed on Wednesday the top Slovenian ski resorts in the 2006/2007 season at the award ceremony in Rogaska Slatina, the organisers said in a press release. More »
The Tourism and Leisure Fair opened on Thursday at the Ljubljana fairgrounds, featuring 116 exhibitors. The fair also includes two independent events, a boat show and a two-day congress market, according to the organisers. More »
The memorandum of intention signed by the Education Ministry, Hoteli Piran hotel company and the Piran municipality set the foundation for the renovation of the Piran Aquarium, which should be completed in May 2009. More »
Interior Minister Dragutin Mate was among nine interior ministers from EU newcomers to receive a symbolic software package for the installation of the "SIS I for All" Schengen Information System, a major step in eliminating controls on the internal borders of the EU. More »