Ljubelj is best known as a mountain pass and tunnel connecting Slovenia and Austria across the Karavanke. It is less known that it was built by internees of the only Nazi concentration camp in Slovenia.
As traffic flows across the border moved westwards when the Karavanke tunnel opened in 1991, Lju

Slovenia has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world but the country's prisons have long been overcrowded and understaffed with the latest report by the Council of Europe saying the situation keeps getting worse.
Compared to 2017, there "has been a sharp increase in the number of prisone

Ground was broken on 6 May on a EUR 18 million data centre that will provide infrastructure for open science and house Slovenia's new supercomputer and artificial intelligence factory.
Located in Slovenia's second largest city Maribor, right next to a hydro power plant, the data centre will be oper

Slovenian researcher Teja Potočnik, the founder and CEO of UK-based startup Nanomation, is one of ten innovators selected from 450 candidates to receive the European Patent Office's (EPO) Young Inventors Prize this June.
At Nanomation, the startup she founded during her PhD studies at Cambridge, Po

The Idrija miners' brass band is the oldest in Slovenia and one of the oldest worldwide. Dating back to the 17th century, the ensemble celebrates its 360th anniversary this year, and anyone interested to learn more about its storied past can visit an exhibition in Idrija, a western town known for i

Slovenia has climbed nine places on the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders to rank 33rd among 180 countries. While this is its best rating in five years, journalists warn that the media landscape remains problematic and that the score is still fairly low for an EU count