Editorial
Just a week before the government returns from the summer recess to do business as usual, the environment and foreign ministries announced they had drafted a bill under which Slovenia would declare an ecological zone and continental shelf in the Adriatic. Slovenian parties have voiced unanimous approval.
Flash floods that hit eastern Slovenia on Sunday have caused huge damage, according to preliminary estimates. The government is expected to earmark a total of SIT 80m (EUR 0.33m) for services dealing with the consequences of flash flooding that ravaged through eastern Slovenia on Sunday.
Politics
Slovenia is to declare a protective ecological zone and continental shelf in the Adriatic under a bill that the foreign and environment ministries have sent for government approval, the Environment Ministry said in Thursday's press release. More »
Ljubljana, 18 August
Flash floods that hit eastern Slovenia on Sunday have caused huge damage, according to preliminary estimates. The damage on infrastructure in the Sevnica municipality alone is estimated at over one billion tolars, Sevnica Mayor Kristijan Janc told STA on Monday. More »
Celje/Krsko, 21 August
Culture
"Alamut", a drama adaptation of Vladimir Bartol's 1938 novel on radical Islam, won the competition section of the Salzburg Festival, which is termed "Young Director's Project". More »
Salzburg, 18 August
Ljubljana's 53rd Summer Festival closed on a high note on Thursday, as the number of visitors, braving changeable weather and a modernised programme, remained on a par with last year. More »
Ljubljana, 18 August
People
One of Slovenia's best mountaineers has returned home a week after being rescued from the clutches of one of the world's most dangerous mountains. More »
Ljubljana, 17 August
Calendar of Events
Schedule of Events from 23 to 28 August More »
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