Slovenia is currently in the process of drawing up its first national strategy for the protection of intellectual property, which is expected to be adopted next year. The UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has offered help with the preparations.
In Ljubljana on 25 September for talk

Avant Car, which operates Slovenia's biggest electric car sharing system, Avant2Go, is expanding its fleet of fully electric vehicles with Peugeot's E-expert delivery vans. The vehicles will be available for pick-up and return at Ljubljana's shopping and logistics hub BTC.
"We and our partners feel

Higher mortgage interest rates appear to have done little to bring down home prices, although there are signs of softening demand, the latest statistics show.
Home prices increased by 1.9% in April-June compared to the first quarter of the year and by 7.4% compared to the same period in 2022, The S

The National Assembly has passed a bill whose stated objective is to fight animal cruelty, maltreatment and neglect but which has provoked a major controversy in Slovenia, pitting animal rights activists against farmers and veterinarians. A constitutional review of the bill is likely.
Put forward b

All those who were fined for breaching Covid-era rules that were later declared unconstitutional will be reimbursed and their infractions will be deleted from records under a bill passed by the National Assembly on 20 September.
Between March 2020 and the end of May 2022 more than 62,000 infraction

Slovenia will purchase a second C-27J Spartan transport aircraft from Italy under an agreement signed by the countries' defence ministers, Marjan Šarec and Guido Crosetto. The first such aircraft, bought two years ago, is due to arrive in Slovenia in December.


The purchase will enable the Sloveni

Municipalities have reported over EUR 2.7 billion in damage caused by the August floods. The data has been sent by 173 municipalities in the country that experienced flooding and is not yet final.
The municipalities were asked to do an inventory of damage to public service infrastructure facilities

Mushroom foraging is an important part of Slovenian culture, to the extent that it is among the nation's favourite pastimes. And knowledge of mushrooms, built over generations, continues to expand as new species and uses for mushrooms are discovered.
Dating back to the settlement of Slovenian land

Slovenia prides itself on its rich and diverse culinary heritage. To preserve its authenticity, it has so far protected 28 food products, 17 wines and four spirits with the European Commission.
Delicacies such as the potica, the ultimate Slovenian cake, are well known even world-wide, but less so o

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

Respect for human rights and the rule of law are the core principles of the Council of Europe and the lifeblood of democracy, Dunja Mijatović, the organisation's Commissioner for Human Rights, writes in her op-ed for Bled Strategic Times as she calls on member states to strengthen their commitment

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