The Slovenia Times

The logo of this year's national Eurovision contest. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
More than 50 Slovenian musicians, including several former Eurovision contestants, have signed a petition calling for a ban on Israel's participation in this year's Eurovision song contest amidst continued Israeli attacks on Gaza.
They have called on public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, which manages
A waiting room at the emergency unit of the Ljubljana University Medical Centre. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Key health reform bill in place

Health & MedicinePolitics
The Slovenian parliament has passed a reform Health Services Act, a cornerstone of the government's health reform efforts which will end the widespread practice of doctors working in both the public and private sectors.
The clear separation between public and private care "ends the harmful dual pra
Social partners sign agreement laying out a reform of the state pension system. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenians will work longer but their state pensions as a share of income will rise under a pension reform blueprint confirmed by social partners that kickstarts the legislative process.
Under an agreement penned on 2 April, the retirement age will rise from 60 years to 62 for those who have worked

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Matevž Vuga (centre), the director of warehousing and logistics at the consumer electronics retailer Big Bang, receives the 2024 Logistician of the Year award from the Slovenian Logistics Association. Photo: Slovenian Logistics Association
Logistics is a key industry in Europe but it faces headwinds amidst growing geopolitical uncertainty. It needs to adapt quickly, and state support is essential, argued speakers at Supply Chains in Science and Practice, a major international congress on logistics, which got under way on 2 April.
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Monument marking the site of a 1945 crash of a Royal Australian Air Force P-51 Mustang. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Eighty years after his life was saved by Slovenian villagers and resistance fighters, an Australian pilot has been honoured at the very site where his plane went down in the dying days of the Second World War.
One of many allied fliers who flew sorties over Slovenia, Royal Australian Air Force pilo
Cyclist in Ljubljana. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA

Gamifying urban mobility

Environment & NatureSociety
More than half of trips people make every day are shorter than two kilometres, so why not walk or cycle for at least some of them? That is the idea behind a national initiative dubbed Let's Bike to Work Full of Momentum, which is returning this spring for the fourth time and is open to both busines
A mosaic by Marko Rupnik in a church in Ljubljana. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes, France, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites for Catholics, has started covering up works by Slovenian priest and artist Marko Rupnik amid an ongoing investigation of allegations that he brutally sexually abused multiple nuns.
The mosaics on the sid
The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Embraer 190, which will operate the Ljubljana-Amsterdam route. Photo courtesy of Fraport
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has launched daily flights between Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol, initially for the summer but with plans to make it a year-round service.
The service is codeshared with Air France and Delta. The majority of the flights will be operated by a 100-sea

European Capital of Culture 2025

Industrial heritage museum at the Doblar hydro plant. Photo courtesy of SENG

Historic hydro plant home to new technical heritage museum

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
Blending industrial innovation with historical preservation, the Doblar hydro power plant on the Soča has unveiled a museum dedicated to the technical heritage of hydropower. The new museum invites the public to explore the fascinating story behind one of Slovenia's oldest energy facilities.
The po
A tactile structure by Slovenian sculptor Prmož Pugelj. Photo: STA

Art meets touch: Slovenia's first tactile gallery

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
Slovenia's first tactile gallery has opened in Nova Gorica municipality, offering blind and sighted visitors alike a fresh, hands-on encounter with iconic artworks spanning centuries.
The Tactile Gallery, located in a shopping centre in Kromberk and run by the regional Goriška Museum, features work
The Solomon Knot is the symbol of the cross-border Goriška Camino. Photo: Nace Novak

Goriška Camino, a route inspired by friendship

European Capital of Culture 2025Travels
The UNESCO world heritage site of Aquileia in northeastern in Italy and the pilgrimage site of Sveta Gora in western Slovenia have been linked with a new 82-kilometre-long trail called the Goriška Camino or Iter Goritiense.
Designed as Nova Gorica and Gorizia came together for the first cross-borde

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Matevž Vuga (centre), the director of warehousing and logistics at the consumer electronics retailer Big Bang, receives the 2024 Logistician of the Year award from the Slovenian Logistics Association. Photo: Slovenian Logistics Association
Logistics is a key industry in Europe but it faces headwinds amidst growing geopolitical uncertainty. It needs to adapt quickly, and state support is essential, argued speakers at Supply Chains in Science and Practice, a major international congress on logistics, which got under way on 2 April.
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The winners of International Medis Awards, pictured with President Nataša Pirc Musar. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Medis Awards honour medical research in CEE Europe

Exclusive contentHealth & Medicine
Eight doctors and one pharmacist from Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia, were honoured for their outstanding research achievements as the International Medis Awards for Medical Research were handed out for the 11th year in Ljubljana on 13 March.
Paediatrician Alja Kavčič from the Ljubl

Business

Matevž Vuga (centre), the director of warehousing and logistics at the consumer electronics retailer Big Bang, receives the 2024 Logistician of the Year award from the Slovenian Logistics Association. Photo: Slovenian Logistics Association
Logistics is a key industry in Europe but it faces headwinds amidst growing geopolitical uncertainty. It needs to adapt quickly, and state support is essential, argued speakers at Supply Chains in Science and Practice, a major international congress on logistics, which got under way on 2 April.
Slo
The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Embraer 190, which will operate the Ljubljana-Amsterdam route. Photo courtesy of Fraport
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has launched daily flights between Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol, initially for the summer but with plans to make it a year-round service.
The service is codeshared with Air France and Delta. The majority of the flights will be operated by a 100-sea
Boxmark Leather production site in Varaždin, Croatia. Photo: Hina/STA
Boxmark Leather, a former giant that is primarily known for manufacturing seat covers, has announced it is venturing into the defence industry amidst a growing push in Europe to beef up its defence capabilities.
In collaboration with one of its existing customers, the company has begun developing p

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Politics

The logo of this year's national Eurovision contest. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
More than 50 Slovenian musicians, including several former Eurovision contestants, have signed a petition calling for a ban on Israel's participation in this year's Eurovision song contest amidst continued Israeli attacks on Gaza.
They have called on public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, which manages
A waiting room at the emergency unit of the Ljubljana University Medical Centre. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Key health reform bill in place

Health & MedicinePolitics
The Slovenian parliament has passed a reform Health Services Act, a cornerstone of the government's health reform efforts which will end the widespread practice of doctors working in both the public and private sectors.
The clear separation between public and private care "ends the harmful dual pra
Social partners sign agreement laying out a reform of the state pension system. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenians will work longer but their state pensions as a share of income will rise under a pension reform blueprint confirmed by social partners that kickstarts the legislative process.
Under an agreement penned on 2 April, the retirement age will rise from 60 years to 62 for those who have worked

Society

The logo of this year's national Eurovision contest. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
More than 50 Slovenian musicians, including several former Eurovision contestants, have signed a petition calling for a ban on Israel's participation in this year's Eurovision song contest amidst continued Israeli attacks on Gaza.
They have called on public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, which manages
A waiting room at the emergency unit of the Ljubljana University Medical Centre. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Key health reform bill in place

Health & MedicinePolitics
The Slovenian parliament has passed a reform Health Services Act, a cornerstone of the government's health reform efforts which will end the widespread practice of doctors working in both the public and private sectors.
The clear separation between public and private care "ends the harmful dual pra
Monument marking the site of a 1945 crash of a Royal Australian Air Force P-51 Mustang. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Eighty years after his life was saved by Slovenian villagers and resistance fighters, an Australian pilot has been honoured at the very site where his plane went down in the dying days of the Second World War.
One of many allied fliers who flew sorties over Slovenia, Royal Australian Air Force pilo

Travels

The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Embraer 190, which will operate the Ljubljana-Amsterdam route. Photo courtesy of Fraport
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has launched daily flights between Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol, initially for the summer but with plans to make it a year-round service.
The service is codeshared with Air France and Delta. The majority of the flights will be operated by a 100-sea
Open Kitchen, the Ljubljana outdoor food market. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
Ljubljana's popular outdoor food market has opened for its 13th season, attracting an enthusiastic crowd eager to sample Slovenian and international cuisine to the Pogačar Square next to the central market.
The organizers promise Open Kitchen to deliver even more variety this year with more than 65
The Solomon Knot is the symbol of the cross-border Goriška Camino. Photo: Nace Novak

Goriška Camino, a route inspired by friendship

European Capital of Culture 2025Travels
The UNESCO world heritage site of Aquileia in northeastern in Italy and the pilgrimage site of Sveta Gora in western Slovenia have been linked with a new 82-kilometre-long trail called the Goriška Camino or Iter Goritiense.
Designed as Nova Gorica and Gorizia came together for the first cross-borde

Sport

Slovenian pro cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). Photo: Red Bull Content Pool
Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) has won the Volta a Catalunya with a searing solo on the steepest part of the final stage on 30 March to strip Spain's Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) of his leader's jersey.
The 35-year-old launched his attack on the Montjuic with 20 kil
Slovenian Domen Prevc sets a new world record in ski flying and receives the small Crystal Globe for the best ski flyer this season. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenian ski jumper Domen Prevc capped a stellar season on 30 March by setting a new world record of 254.5 metres on the giant hill in Planica, to the delight of thousands of fans who flocked to the Slovenian cradle of ski jumping.
Prevc improved the previous record, set by Austria's Stefan Kraft
Domen Prevc jumping on the large hill in Planica on 28 March 2025. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenia's Domen Prevc won the first World Cup Ski Flying event on home ground in Planica on the final weekend of competition this season to clinch the small Crystal Globe in ski flying with two events to go.
His teammate Anže Lanišek was second and Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan was third.
The two Slove

Opinion

Eva McLellan, managing director of Roche Slovenia. Photo: Roche
In her opinion piece for the Slovenia Times, Eva McLellan, vice president of AmCham Slovenia and managing director of Roche Slovenia, calls for healthcare to be recognized as a strategic investment in Europe's sustainable future-one that benefits all demographics, from women to the elderly.
On any
Marcos Bavdaž, Head of the Technology Preparation Section SCI-FT at the European Space Agency. Photo: personal archive
Marcos Bavdaz is Head of the Technology Preparation Section in the Science Directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA). Located at the European Space research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, he is responsible for the timely development of novel technologies required