Slovenia's economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.1% in real terms in the first quarter of the year. Seasonally-adjusted growth in GDP, which is a gauge used across the EU, was 1.8% year-on-year but level on the quarter before, data released by the Statistics Office show.
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One of the largest hotels in Ljubljana, the Austria Trend Hotel has been sold to the Serbian group Agromarket, which also owns Semenarna Ljubljana, a company specialising in seed production, the news portal Property Forum has reported. It is unclear how much the Serbian group paid for the hotel.
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Slovenia is planning to limit short-term rentals to 30 days a year in a bid to address housing shortages. The cap will not apply if the property is registered as a tourist accommodation facility.
The curbs are proposed in a draft hospitality industry bill that the Economy Ministry unveiled on 13 Ma

Hard on the heels of her visit to the Middle East and the Slovenian government's decision to start procedures to recognise Palestinian statehood, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon returned to the region for a tour taking her to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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Staff at 34 out of Slovenia's 58 administrative units went on all-out strike on 15 May after failing to have their demands for better pay and extra staff met despite staging strikes every Wednesday for the past two months. Staff at another 15 units will continue to hold one-day strikes.
The employe

Slovenia's main foreign affairs event, the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), will focus on cooperation to the benefit of all this year. Running under the theme A World of Parallel Realities, the 19th BSF will take place on 2 and 3 September and will give even more room to young people than usual.
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A global survey conducted in 39 countries suggests that Slovenia has the lowest proportion of people struggling to make ends meet, while the share of people who live comfortably is well above the global and European averages.
The survey, conducted by the Mediana Institute in Slovenia in cooperation

Ana Karneža, a Slovenian actor and singer, currently finishing her last year of the MFA acting program at the Juilliard School, won the first prize in 2024 Lenya Competition in the US in early May. She was shortlisted for the prize among 286 candidates from 25 countries.
"With a commanding performa

A total of 37,002 people participated in the three-day sports event Walk along the Wire, which annually commemorates the liberation of Ljubljana in the Second World War. Popular among hikers and runners, the event kicked off on 9 May, when the capital celebrated Ljubljana Day alongside Europe Day.

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