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Slovenian primary school children will have to learn a foreign language from grade one under amendments to the Primary Schools Act that the government confirmed on 30 November. A plan to introduce a mandatory second language in higher grades has been aborted.
Primary schools can currently offer the
Slovenia's annual inflation slowed to 4.9% in November, the lowest rate in two years and two percentage points lower than a month ago, fresh data from the Statistics Office shows.
Prices dropped by 1% on the month before in what is the first month-on-month deflation in more than a year. This was ma
Slovenia's largest banking group, NLB signed a deal to acquire the country's largest leasing company, Summit Leasing on 30 November in a step the bank hopes will pave its way to the Croatian market.
NLB acquired 100% stake in SLS Holdco, the parent company of Summit Leasing Slovenija and its subsid
The European Commission has approved an advance payment of €100 million from the EU Solidarity Fund to support Slovenia's reconstruction efforts after the damage caused by the devastating August floods. The rest of the €400 million that Slovenia asked for is expected to be paid out next year.
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Passengers wanting to ride Ljubljana city buses can from now on use a Mastercard or Visa card to pay for their fare but only the Urbana city card or app will still allow them to change buses for free.
The Ljubljana public transportation company LPP presented the new digital solution supporting car
Two Slovenian rock climbers have conquered a new, 700-metre route up Mount Rjavina in the Julian Alps in what is the country's toughest rock climbing route yet, graded X on the UIAA scale.
Luka Lindič and Luka Krajnc discovered and climbed the new route in August and they talked about their feat
The National Assembly has passed a 16-point declaration on the situation in Palestine and Israel in which Slovenia condemns Hamas's attack against Israel while denouncing any attacks by both Hamas and Israel on civilian targets and urging all sides to an immediate ceasefire.
The debate at the plena
Spanish flag carrier Iberia Airlines and Norway's budget carrier Norwegian Air have applied for subsidies offered by the Slovenian government under a scheme designed to improve the country's air connectivity.
Revealing the two bidders on 28 November, the Infrastructure Ministry said their applicati
The Ljubljana Faculty of Electrical Engineering has acquired a €1.25 million super-resolution microscope in what is the most expensive single piece of equipment ever purchased by the University of Ljubljana. It will allow researchers to observe cellular processes in even greater detail.
The faculty
Slovenians now see climate change impacts and environmental degradation as the number one challenge for the nation, followed by the increased cost of living and access to healthcare, the latest climate survey of the European Investment Bank (EIB), conducted just after the August floods in Slovenia,

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German-owned caravan maker Carthago, global shipping company Boxline UCL, sports goods maker Elan and retailer Spar Slovenija won the 2023 FDI Slovenia Awards as the SPIRT Slovenija investment promotion agency and the Economy Ministry honoured best foreign investors on 21 November.
Carthago won the
Slovenia needs a central film institution and a comprehensive legislative reform to allow the audiovisual industry to thrive, heard a panel organised by the Slovenian Press Agency and the Slovenian Federation of Filmmakers' Guilds (ZDSFU) on 8 November.
A follow-up on a recent debate on the economi
The Slovenian audiovisual (AV) industry harbours a huge potential, with a development strategy commissioned from Deloitte Slovenija suggesting it could generate €1 billion in revenue by 2030, taking into account the multiplier effect, provided more funding and better regulatory framework.
The docu

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Slovenia's annual inflation slowed to 4.9% in November, the lowest rate in two years and two percentage points lower than a month ago, fresh data from the Statistics Office shows.
Prices dropped by 1% on the month before in what is the first month-on-month deflation in more than a year. This was ma
Slovenia's largest banking group, NLB signed a deal to acquire the country's largest leasing company, Summit Leasing on 30 November in a step the bank hopes will pave its way to the Croatian market.
NLB acquired 100% stake in SLS Holdco, the parent company of Summit Leasing Slovenija and its subsid
Spanish flag carrier Iberia Airlines and Norway's budget carrier Norwegian Air have applied for subsidies offered by the Slovenian government under a scheme designed to improve the country's air connectivity.
Revealing the two bidders on 28 November, the Infrastructure Ministry said their applicati

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The National Assembly has passed a 16-point declaration on the situation in Palestine and Israel in which Slovenia condemns Hamas's attack against Israel while denouncing any attacks by both Hamas and Israel on civilian targets and urging all sides to an immediate ceasefire.
The debate at the plena
Slovenia will purchase six AW139M multi-role helicopters from Italy for €188 million under a deal signed by Defence Minister Marjan Šarec and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto.
Šarec and Crosetto signed an amendment to the implementing agreement between the two ministries on cooperation in m
Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon urged steps towards lasting peace and push for a peace process that would lead to a two-state solution as she toured Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt with her Portuguese counterpart Joao Gomes Cravinho on 24 and 25 November, just when a four-day ceasefi

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Slovenian primary school children will have to learn a foreign language from grade one under amendments to the Primary Schools Act that the government confirmed on 30 November. A plan to introduce a mandatory second language in higher grades has been aborted.
Primary schools can currently offer the
The European Commission has approved an advance payment of €100 million from the EU Solidarity Fund to support Slovenia's reconstruction efforts after the damage caused by the devastating August floods. The rest of the €400 million that Slovenia asked for is expected to be paid out next year.
The a
Slovenians now see climate change impacts and environmental degradation as the number one challenge for the nation, followed by the increased cost of living and access to healthcare, the latest climate survey of the European Investment Bank (EIB), conducted just after the August floods in Slovenia,

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Passengers wanting to ride Ljubljana city buses can from now on use a Mastercard or Visa card to pay for their fare but only the Urbana city card or app will still allow them to change buses for free.
The Ljubljana public transportation company LPP presented the new digital solution supporting car
Bohinj, an area nestling among the towering mountains of northwestern Slovenia that is best known for its lake, had its share of the turbulent past that shaped Europe in the 20th century. With the help of a rich collection of objects left behind by warring armies, a new museum sheds light on those
The Krvavec ski resort has been declared Slovenia's best by the global World Ski Awards programme for the eighth year running.
Located a spitting distance from the capital Ljubljana, Krvavec is a hugely popular resort. This year it will launch the season with a new six-seater ski lift.
"We are look

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Two Slovenian rock climbers have conquered a new, 700-metre route up Mount Rjavina in the Julian Alps in what is the country's toughest rock climbing route yet, graded X on the UIAA scale.
Luka Lindič and Luka Krajnc discovered and climbed the new route in August and they talked about their feat
The Slovenian national team realised a long-held dream and earned a place in next year's European Football Championship after a 24-year absence by defeating Kazakhstan 2:1 in the final round of qualifying on 20 November.
This will be the second time Slovenia will play at the Euro and the first time

Slovenia's Ema Kozin was crowned unified light-middleweight champion of the World Boxing Council and the World Boxing Organization after beating Scot Hannah Rankin in Manchester on 18 November.





Kozin and Rankin appeared rather matched and the 24-year-old Slovenian won on a split decision afte

Opinion

Our Earth, our responsibility

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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

S stands for Slovenia, Solidarity and Stability

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Solidarity and stability are more than just buzzwords. They are values we live by and cherish, and want to promote globally, Tanja Fajon, Slovenia's minister of foreign and European affairs, writes in her op-ed for Bled Strategic Times ahead of the Bled Strategic Forum, noting that Slovenia experi