Croatian services company Mplus has acquired a 51% stake in Panvita, Slovenia's leading agri-food company, through a €50 million capital injection. The transaction is conditional on regulatory approval.
"The two groups are partnering up to position the new group as a leader in the food industry in

eVersum Technologies, a company based in Austria's Graz, has been developing and producing electric minibuses across the border in the Maribor area for several years now, carving out a niche for itself in the international commercial vehicles market.
CEO Holger Postl describes eVersum as a Slovenia

Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts.
The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational ce

Territorial Defence played a crucial role in Slovenia's independence efforts, providing a basis that the nation's armed forces evolved from. Faced with new threats, the country is now planning to revive it.
Speaking to reporters on 7 May, Defence Minister Marjan Šarec announced that Slovenia is set

The National Assembly has set up a parliamentary inquiry targeting Star Solar, a company owned by Prime Minister Robert Golob, Gen-I, a company he used to run, and the financing of his party Freedom Movement.
The inquiry, launched by default after it was requested by the upper chamber of parliament

Slovenia and the UK celebrated their friendship and alliance with an annual ceremony on 6 May in a village in southeastern Slovenia where a British bomber crashed just before the end of the Second World War and the surviving crew members were rescued by the locals.
Addressing the ceremony along wit

Slovenian singer Raiven has qualified for the final of the 68th Eurovision song contest. She made it through in the first semi-final on 7 May along with Serbia, Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Finland, Cyprus, Ireland and Luxembourg.
Raiven, the stage name of Sara Briški Cirman, performed V

Nearly one-third of the population emigrated out of Slovenia in the final decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. A monograph telling the stories of people that left their home in search of a better life has now come out in English.
Written by Aleksej Kalc, Mirjam Milharčič Hl

Visitors to Lake Bled were treated to an impressive sight as well as sound on 5 May as more than 450 accordion players got together to play some of the most memorable tunes in unison.
The annual event dedicated to the quintessential Slovenian instrument attracted some 5,000 visitors to what is the

The Jožef Stefan Institute, the country's leading scientific research institution, opens its doors wide to the public for a week every year to present scientific achievements in accessible ways. This is especially important at a time when it is often difficult to separate quasi-science from scienc

The green transition is not just a moral imperative but a vital driver of Europe's economic competitiveness, Kyriacos Kakouris, vice-president of the European Investment Bank, writes in his op-ed for the Slovenia Times as he sets out the bank's role in financing climate action and fostering sustain

In his op-ed for Bled Strategic Times ahead of the Bled Strategic Forum, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob makes a call for "global solidarity to save our planet", combining it with an appeal to Russia to end the war of aggression against Ukraine.
In the first days of August, as I was walking t