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Last registered location of a plane that crashed on the Velika Planina plateau. Photo: Flightradar
An initial report into the 10 March plane crash at Velika Planina that killed Swedish businessman and former politician Carl Lundström has confirmed weather conditions were unfavourable for flying, but does not yet formally conclude poor weather as the most likely cause of the accident.
The flight
Fuel nozzles at a service station. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Fuel prices in Slovenia will drop to more than 12-month lows on 23 April. Regular petrol sold off the motorway network will come 7.8 cents cheaper, at €1.417 per litre, and the price of diesel will be marked down by 8.1 cents to €1.443 per a litre.
The new prices, which apply until 5 May, were anno
One of the potica's that was sent to Pope Francis for what would be his last Christmas. Photo: Gregor Mlakar/STA
Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not visit Slovenia as pope but he did visit as a Jesuit priest in his 30s when he had his first taste of potica - a pastry that he came to love and would forever associate with Slovenia.
The future pope visited Slovenia for the first time in 1970 when he spent a week with
Janez Janša, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, addresses his supporters outside the Celje courthouse after his acquittal in the Trenta case. Photo: Lili Pušnik/STA
Slovenian opposition leader Janez Janša has been acquitted in a case in which he stood accused of being an accessory to abuse of office and faced two years in jail, a decision he says did little to make up for years of harassment.
The acquittal came "after almost fifteen years of interrogations, tr

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The food hall at the Maximarket department store. Photo: Nik Jevšnik/STA
Water contaminated with E.coli bacteria and sapovirus has sickened over 350 people in a posh department store in the centre of Ljubljana, including members of parliament and employees of the country's largest bank.
The Maximarket department store detected an infection of unknown origin among its cu
Fiorentina forward Moise Kean battles it out with Celje defender Žan Karničnik in the return leg of the UEFA Conference League in Florence. Photo: ANSA/STA

Slovenian football champions Celje conceded to heavily favoured Italian side Fiorentina in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League, but they left the pitch in high spirits as the first Slovenian club to make the quarter-finals of a major European competition.
The Slovenian side held Fiore
Bitcoin crypto currency. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenia plans to tax profits from cryptocurrency trading by extending the currently applicable capital gains tax to all crypto assets, turning Slovenia from a crypto tax haven into a high-tax jurisdiction.
The country does not currently have any tax on individual crypto holdings, but under a propo
The Kolpa river on the border between Slovenia and Croatia. Photo: Rasto Božič/STA
Irregular migrations into the EU have been declining since last year and Slovenia is no exception to the trend. In the first three months of the year the Slovenian police handled 3,876 irregular border crossings, down 60% on a year ago, the latest police statistics show.
The decline is even more pr
A seamstress making garments for Slovenian apparel company Lelosi. Photo courtesy of the company
A major Slovenian apparel brand best known for upmarket leggings has decided to move a part of its production from China to Slovenia, a rare boost for the country's ailing textile industry.
Lelosi, a direct-to-consumer brand, will produce certain pieces in Murska Sobota starting with Bermuda shorts
Hospital Olympic Games. Photo: Bor Slana/STA

For the past three decades Slovenia has been organising an annual Olympic Games-themed event for children whose health condition means they are away from school a lot. Taking place at a major rehabilitation centre, this year's event featured 42 children participating in three sports disciplines.

European Capital of Culture 2025

Self-portrait by Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) at the National Gallery. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
Zoran Mušič (1909-2005), an internationally acclaimed modernist painter and printmaker, will be honoured with a series of exhibitions in Slovenia and Italy as Nova Gorica and Gorizia have come together as the first cross-border European Capital of Culture.
Born to Slovenian parents in the Slovenian
The Jewish cemetery in Rožna Dolina, close to Nova Gorica. Photo: Eva Horvat/STA
The Italian city of Gorizia used to have a thriving Jewish community. During the Second World War most of its members perished or fled, and when the war ended the synagogue and the cemetery were on different sides of the Iron Curtain. They are now being reconnected at a symbolic level.
A cross-bord
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

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Opening event of French-Slovenian Entrepreneurship and Innovation Days. Photo: Jure Makovec/STA
Slovenia and France have excellent cooperation in a number of fields but see the potential to upgrade it further in energy and new technologies, in particular in the development of hydrogen technologies and artificial intelligence (AI).
Addressing the opening of French-Slovenian Entrepreneurship an
The Slovenian-German Economic Day event. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Circular economy is much more than recycling and sustainable operations pay off for businesses, including by giving them a long-term competitive advantage, heard an event organised by the German-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bled on 8 April.
Businesses are faced with the consequence
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

Business

Fuel nozzles at a service station. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Fuel prices in Slovenia will drop to more than 12-month lows on 23 April. Regular petrol sold off the motorway network will come 7.8 cents cheaper, at €1.417 per litre, and the price of diesel will be marked down by 8.1 cents to €1.443 per a litre.
The new prices, which apply until 5 May, were anno
Bitcoin crypto currency. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenia plans to tax profits from cryptocurrency trading by extending the currently applicable capital gains tax to all crypto assets, turning Slovenia from a crypto tax haven into a high-tax jurisdiction.
The country does not currently have any tax on individual crypto holdings, but under a propo
A seamstress making garments for Slovenian apparel company Lelosi. Photo courtesy of the company
A major Slovenian apparel brand best known for upmarket leggings has decided to move a part of its production from China to Slovenia, a rare boost for the country's ailing textile industry.
Lelosi, a direct-to-consumer brand, will produce certain pieces in Murska Sobota starting with Bermuda shorts

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Politics

Janez Janša, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, addresses his supporters outside the Celje courthouse after his acquittal in the Trenta case. Photo: Lili Pušnik/STA
Slovenian opposition leader Janez Janša has been acquitted in a case in which he stood accused of being an accessory to abuse of office and faced two years in jail, a decision he says did little to make up for years of harassment.
The acquittal came "after almost fifteen years of interrogations, tr
The Kolpa river on the border between Slovenia and Croatia. Photo: Rasto Božič/STA
Irregular migrations into the EU have been declining since last year and Slovenia is no exception to the trend. In the first three months of the year the Slovenian police handled 3,876 irregular border crossings, down 60% on a year ago, the latest police statistics show.
The decline is even more pr
Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin (left) and Cohesion and Regional Development Minister Aleksander Jevšek sign an agreement on the Swiss-Slovenian programme of cooperation. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenia will receive 16 million Swiss francs over ten years for sustainable energy projects as part of the Second Swiss Contribution, a package worth over a billion francs that Switzerland is allocating to countries that joined the EU in 2004.
Climate change will strongly impact on the Alpine spac

Society

Last registered location of a plane that crashed on the Velika Planina plateau. Photo: Flightradar
An initial report into the 10 March plane crash at Velika Planina that killed Swedish businessman and former politician Carl Lundström has confirmed weather conditions were unfavourable for flying, but does not yet formally conclude poor weather as the most likely cause of the accident.
The flight
One of the potica's that was sent to Pope Francis for what would be his last Christmas. Photo: Gregor Mlakar/STA
Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not visit Slovenia as pope but he did visit as a Jesuit priest in his 30s when he had his first taste of potica - a pastry that he came to love and would forever associate with Slovenia.
The future pope visited Slovenia for the first time in 1970 when he spent a week with
The food hall at the Maximarket department store. Photo: Nik Jevšnik/STA
Water contaminated with E.coli bacteria and sapovirus has sickened over 350 people in a posh department store in the centre of Ljubljana, including members of parliament and employees of the country's largest bank.
The Maximarket department store detected an infection of unknown origin among its cu

Travels

The 1 May Square in Piran. Photo: nschuwi/Wikimedia
A small but iconic square in the heart of Piran has become Slovenia's first location to make the Treasures of European Film Culture, a list of symbolic places of European cinema compiled by the European Film Academy to highlight the need to maintain and protect them.
The 1 May Square is best known
A ceremony held as Eurowings launches scheduled flights between Düsseldorf and Ljubljana. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Eurowings, the low-cost airline affiliated with the German Lufthansa Group, has launched scheduled flights between Ljubljana and Düsseldorf. Passengers will be able to fly between the cities three times a week as well as benefit from Eurowings' connecting flights.
Ljubljana airport welcomed the arr
A panorama of Ljubljana with the castle to the right. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenia's capital tops the list of Best European Spring Break Destinations compiled by the portal European Best Destinations, which describes Ljubljana as a dream for travellers from all over the world.
The portal notes the city's baroque districts and art nouveau buildings, labelling it one of th

Sport

Fiorentina forward Moise Kean battles it out with Celje defender Žan Karničnik in the return leg of the UEFA Conference League in Florence. Photo: ANSA/STA

Slovenian football champions Celje conceded to heavily favoured Italian side Fiorentina in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League, but they left the pitch in high spirits as the first Slovenian club to make the quarter-finals of a major European competition.
The Slovenian side held Fiore
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić at the 18 March game against the San Antonio Spurs. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Slovenian player Luka Dončić is one of the undisputed stars of the NBA, and now he has become the first international player ever to top the most popular jerseys list.
In only two and a half months since his shock trade to the Los Angeles Lakers, his No. 77 Lakers jersey has become the NBA's most p
Ajša Sivka, a member of the Slovenian women's basketball team. Photo: Slovenian Basketball Federation
Ajša Sivka, a 19-year-old Slovenian basketball talent, has been selected by the Chicago Sky as the 10th overall pick of the first round of the 2025 draft of the WNBA, the world's strongest basketball league. She is the second Slovenian ever to be picked by a WNBA team.
Sivka, a forward, most recent

Opinion

Rok Žitko, a quantum physics researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute. Photo: Courtesy of Rok Žitko
Rok Žitko, a quantum physics researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, writes about the potential for further development of quantum science as a flagship field of research in Slovenia in an opinion piece for the Slovenia Times ahead of World Quantum Day.
This year marks the centenary of the beginn
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