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Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon meets her counterpart Israel Katz during her visit to Israel. Photo: Tanja Fajon/X
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon visited Israel and the West Bank on 5 May for a second time since the start of the Israeli-Hamas war nearly seven months ago, sending out a message that the recognition of Palestine as an independent state is no longer an issue for Slovenia.
Meeting with her Israeli cou
Tadej Pogačar pictured at the opening of the Giro d'Italia in Turin. Photo: ANSA/STA
Slovenia's cycling star Tadej Pogačar won Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia to claim the leader's pink jersey despite suffering a puncture before heading into the final climb to the Sanctuary of Oropa in Italy's Piedmont region.
In his debut appearance in the Italian Grand Tour, the Slovenian UAE Team
Slovenia play Hungary at the Division 1 World Championship in 2022. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The Slovenian men's ice hockey team has qualified for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, the elite level of international ice hockey competition, by securing a top-two finish at the ongoing World Championship Division I in Bolzano, Italy.
Slovenia defeated Japan 3:1 on 3 May and Hungary beat Italy 3
Cameras set up in the National Assembly. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Slovenia has jumped eight places to rank 42nd in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders, but despite the improvement journalists warn they still face pressure and economic uncertainty.
The country scored 72.6 points, up from 70.59 last year, having received high marks f

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The Lovrenc Lakes, a rare example of pristine high-altitude wetlands. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

New nature park created in Pohorje

Environment & NatureSociety
Woody high-altitude wetlands and mountain pastures that have long attracted visitors to Pohorje, a lush massif in northeast Slovenia, will enjoy special protection with the creation of a new Pohorje Regional Park.
The park stretches over 52 square kilometres in the upper altitudes of Pohorje and in
Barrels reading radioactive at a radioactive waste storage facility in Brinje, near Ljubljana. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenia will soon start building a repository for low- and and intermediate-level radioactive waste produced by its sole nuclear power plan. Construction will start in May with the facility slated to become operational in 2028.
A Slovenian consortium led by engineering company Riko has been picked
The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

Science & EducationScience & Technology
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
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the
Glovo food courier's backpack. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments."
"We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver to you," the company sa
Norwegian lunches flights between Ljubljana and Copenhagen. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched a twice-weekly service between Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport and Copenhagen.
Norwegian will initially fly between the Slovenian and Danish capitals Mondays and Fridays, and during the peak summer season Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Airport operator Fraport Sloveni

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Day of German-Slovenian Business in Bled. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The impact of the green transition on competitiveness was one of the challenges discussed at the annual Day of German-Slovenian Business, organised by the German-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the IEDC - Bled School of Management on 16 April.
The event, themed Circular Economy: The I
Containers at the Koper port. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
The challenges faced by the logistics industry amid the global uncertainties and disruptions to global supply chains, and solutions in the application of new technologies such as AI were discussed as an international logistics congress opened in Portorož on 27 March.
The logistics industry is an i
Hidria CEO Bojan Gantar (third from left) accepts the German Business Award, pictured with German Deputy Ambassador Eva-Ricarda Willems, president of the German-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dagmar von Bohnstein, and dean of the Bled School of Management Drikus Kriek. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA

Hidria wins German Business Award

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Hidria, a leading Slovenian supplier of the global car industry, is the winner of the 2023/24 German Business Award, which recognizes important technological and economic innovation that has long-term effects.
The award is presented by the Slovenian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in cooper

Business

The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

Science & EducationScience & Technology
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
Glovo food courier's backpack. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments."
"We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver to you," the company sa
Norwegian lunches flights between Ljubljana and Copenhagen. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched a twice-weekly service between Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport and Copenhagen.
Norwegian will initially fly between the Slovenian and Danish capitals Mondays and Fridays, and during the peak summer season Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Airport operator Fraport Sloveni

Politics

Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon meets her counterpart Israel Katz during her visit to Israel. Photo: Tanja Fajon/X
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon visited Israel and the West Bank on 5 May for a second time since the start of the Israeli-Hamas war nearly seven months ago, sending out a message that the recognition of Palestine as an independent state is no longer an issue for Slovenia.
Meeting with her Israeli cou
Cameras set up in the National Assembly. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Slovenia has jumped eight places to rank 42nd in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders, but despite the improvement journalists warn they still face pressure and economic uncertainty.
The country scored 72.6 points, up from 70.59 last year, having received high marks f
A ballot box. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
As Slovenians head to the polls on 9 June for EU elections they will also cast their vote in a triple referendum about assisted dying, cannabis use and the introduction of a preferential vote in general elections, unless the Constitutional Court decides otherwise.
It was the Freedom Movement, the b

Society

The Lovrenc Lakes, a rare example of pristine high-altitude wetlands. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

New nature park created in Pohorje

Environment & NatureSociety
Woody high-altitude wetlands and mountain pastures that have long attracted visitors to Pohorje, a lush massif in northeast Slovenia, will enjoy special protection with the creation of a new Pohorje Regional Park.
The park stretches over 52 square kilometres in the upper altitudes of Pohorje and in
The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

Science & EducationScience & Technology
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
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the

Travels

Norwegian lunches flights between Ljubljana and Copenhagen. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched a twice-weekly service between Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport and Copenhagen.
Norwegian will initially fly between the Slovenian and Danish capitals Mondays and Fridays, and during the peak summer season Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Airport operator Fraport Sloveni
First AirBaltic aircraft welcomed at Ljubljana airport. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
The first airBaltic flight from Riga touched down at Ljubljana airport as the Latvian flag carrier launched scheduled flights between the two capitals on 25 April.
AirBaltic will fly between Riga and Ljubljana twice a week, expectedly until the end of 2025.
Around two-thirds of the Airbus A220-300
A Slovenian Railways Stadler train. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenian Railways is launching a new passenger service running from Villa Opicina above Trieste in Italy to Rijeka in Croatia and back via Slovenia. The new service, a result of cooperation with Croatian and Italian partners, will run daily from 24 April to 30 September this year.
The Slovenian ra

Sport

Tadej Pogačar pictured at the opening of the Giro d'Italia in Turin. Photo: ANSA/STA
Slovenia's cycling star Tadej Pogačar won Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia to claim the leader's pink jersey despite suffering a puncture before heading into the final climb to the Sanctuary of Oropa in Italy's Piedmont region.
In his debut appearance in the Italian Grand Tour, the Slovenian UAE Team
Slovenia play Hungary at the Division 1 World Championship in 2022. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The Slovenian men's ice hockey team has qualified for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, the elite level of international ice hockey competition, by securing a top-two finish at the ongoing World Championship Division I in Bolzano, Italy.
Slovenia defeated Japan 3:1 on 3 May and Hungary beat Italy 3
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the

Opinion

Boštjan Zalar, director of the Jožef Stefan Institute. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
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
Kyriacos Kakouris, vice-president of the European Investment Bank. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
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
Ljubljana
Prime Minister Robert Golob.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Our Earth, our responsibility

Bled Strategic ForumOpinionPolitics
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