With the date of the June elections to the European Parliament approaching fast, all of Slovenia's major parties have now presented their candidates. Like the opposition, who unveiled their candidate lists a while ago, ruling coalition parties are betting on tried-and-tested names.
Half of Slovenia
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
Slovenia's Earth Overshoot Day landed on 25 April this year, which is one week later than last year. The day, also known as Ecological Debt Day, marks the day when the annual biocapacity of Earth would be used up if everyone lived like people in Slovenia do.
According to the Global Footprint Networ
The Japanese robotics company Yaskawa has laid the foundation stone for two new facilities next to its existing robots plant in Kočevje, south Slovenia, in an investment valued at €32 million.
Yaskawa, which also operates two plants in Ribnica nearby, will build a European robot distribution centre
The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Serbian chargé d'affaires in Ljubljana over Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's recent offensive statements about Slovenia after a UN Security Council session dedicated to Kosovo.
The decision comes after Vučić said on 23 April that Serbia had fallen into a tr
The Slovenian pharmaceutical company Krka is celebrating its 70th anniversary. A leading generics group, Krka today manufactures over 1,000 products, which are used by more than 100 million people in 70 countries.
"Our products are used to manage all the most common diseases of our time," CEO Jože
A Slovenian player has won €60 million, the largest lottery taking in the country to date, in the transnational lottery Eurojackpot, the Slovenian national lottery has announced.
The Slovenian split the €120 million jackpot with a German player by matching five correct numbers out of 50 plus anothe
The National Assembly has passed a controversial reform energy bill, ending months of heated debates centred on provisions on the burning of natural gas and wood. While a ban on gas boilers in new homes has been retained despite protests from the industry, a ban on wood was thrown out.
The legislat
Janja Garnbret, the world's best sport climber, who will be defending her Olympic gold in Paris this year, has become the hero of a picture book called Janja and the Magic Flower.
The book, released in Slovenian and English, was launched in Ljubljana on World Book Day, 23 April. It is the latest in
