Slovenian and Croatian cabinets held the first joint session ever last week, substantiating the tentative moves towards the resolution of open issues that the prime ministers made earlier this year. At the same time, the government was frantically preparing for the final round of EU budget talks at the 16 June summit, which might determine Slovenia's budget position in the 2007-2013 period.
For Slovenia, the proposal for the 2007-2013 EU budget that the Luxembourg EU presidency has put forward makes it possible to wrap up budget negotiations: it gives Slovenia more money for cohesion than the current budget framework, economist Mojmir Mrak said. More »
The signing of several agreements, including an accord on avoiding double taxation, wrapped up the joint session of the Slovenian and Croatian governments on Friday. Additionally, the ministers agreed to hold regular sessions twice a year, with the next meeting to take place in Slovenia by the end of the year. More »
President Janez Drnovsek called for reconciliation and forgiveness as he addressed the national remembrance ceremony for the victims of post-war summary killings at the Teharje Memorial Park on Saturday. More »
Prime Minister Janez Jansa said after Wednesday's talks with the EU presiding Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker that Slovenia wished its position as EU net receiver to be twice as good as the present one in the next EU financial period. More »
The umbrella organisation of the European steel industry, Eurofer, was kicking off a two-day conference aimed at reviewing current trends in the industry on Thursday in Ljubljana. More »
Slovenia and two other EU member states, Cyprus and Slovakia, became members of the European University Institute (EUI), a post-graduate studies institution based near Florence. The EUI specialises in legal, economic and political studies from the aspect of European integration. More »
The Ministry for Higher Education, Science and Technology Jure Zupan has presented a set of measures with which it hopes to make Slovenia one of the leading European countries in terms of the IT society. More »
European Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner has urged Slovenian officials to use every euro available from the EU's funds. After inspecting several EU-funded projects durign a working visit on Wednesday, Hubner said Slovenia has been successful in phasing various types of EU funding. More »
NATO has proposed that Slovenia should reassess the appropriateness of its Pilatus planes and patrol boat, capabilities that are not directly associated with the increase in the alliances capabilities, Defence Minister Karl Erjavec said on the margins of meeting of NATO defence ministers on Thursday. More »
The "A+A" gallery, which will be Slovenia's national pavilion during the 51st Venice Biennial, opened on Friday evening, anticipating the Sunday grand opening of the biennial. Slovenia is represented by Vadim Fiskin's installation "Another Speedy Day". More »
Three Slovenian art projects will be featured at the LIPA Gallery (short for Links for International Promotion of the Arts) in the centre of Chicago between 10 June and 8 July. More »
Some 300 authors from around the globe are expected to converge on the lakeside resort of Bled today for the 71st world congress of International PEN, the worldwide literary and human rights association founded in England in 1921. More »
Five wines, three of them from Slovenia, were crowned world champions at the Ljubljana International Wine Tasting that was held between 3 and 6 June. More »
Slovenian poet, translator and academician Ciril Zlobec is this year's winner of the Fulvio Tomizza Award, given out by the Lions Club Trieste Europa for promoting the ideals of understanding and peaceful coexistence among the people living along the national border. More »
The Tourist Association of Slovenia (TZS) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, which the association's president Marjan Rozic hopes will provide an impetus to the country's tourist development. More »