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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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Aljoša Matko, the top scorer for Celje, at the European U-21 championship in 2021. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Celje have won their second ever championship title in the Slovenian premiere football league a full three rounds before the end of competition.
They have been the dominant side since the early stages of the season and sealed the deal by defeating reigning champions Olimpija 1:0 on 28 April.
"Congr
Melamin factory in Kočevje before the 2022 fire. Photo: Aleš Kocjan/STA
The Kočevje chemical company Melamin returned to profit in 2023 after posting its first loss in decades the year before largely owing a deadly explosion in May 2022. The company has restored the bulk of its production capacities.
The company reported nearly €1.1 million in profit for 2023, bouncing
Three bivouac shelters from waste cans to be built in the mountains. Photo: Laško Union brewery
The Slovenian Alpine Association, the country's largest brewery and other partners have teamed up to collect waste aluminium cans and turn them into bivouac shelters in the mountains.
The cans will be collected for a year in dedicated yellow bins at 16 locations around the country as part of a proj
Vienna, Austria, capital. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Austria is the favourite career destination for Slovenians, while Slovenia is the most desired job destination for workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, a survey by employment portal Mojedelo.com and the Boston Consulting Group has shown.
The survey, conducted among 150,000 respondents from 1
A ceremony in front of a villa where the founding meeting of the WWII resistance movement Liberation Front took place. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenia observes the Day of Uprising Against Occupation on 27 April, a holiday honouring the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation during the Second World War.
The WWII resistance was spearheaded by the Liberation Front, an organisation founded in Ljubljana on 26 April 1941, 20 days after
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

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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

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
The Freedom Movement's EU election candidates: MPs Tamara Vonta and Uroš Brežan, MEP Irena Joveva, youth wing head Matej Grah, and State Secretary Maša Kociper. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
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
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić pictured during the 2022 Brdo-Brijuni summit in Slovenia. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
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

Society

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
Three bivouac shelters from waste cans to be built in the mountains. Photo: Laško Union brewery
The Slovenian Alpine Association, the country's largest brewery and other partners have teamed up to collect waste aluminium cans and turn them into bivouac shelters in the mountains.
The cans will be collected for a year in dedicated yellow bins at 16 locations around the country as part of a proj

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

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
Aljoša Matko, the top scorer for Celje, at the European U-21 championship in 2021. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Celje have won their second ever championship title in the Slovenian premiere football league a full three rounds before the end of competition.
They have been the dominant side since the early stages of the season and sealed the deal by defeating reigning champions Olimpija 1:0 on 28 April.
"Congr
Sport climber Janja Garnbret holds a picture book inspired by her life story. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
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

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