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Tadej Pogačar in action at the 2024 Tour de France. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The world's top-ranked road cycling rider Tadej Pogačar will end this season with a friendly competition leading from his home town to the top of his favourite hill, Krvavec.
On 12 October, 1,189 participants will enjoy racing the three-time Tour de France winner up 1,189 metres of ascent to the ba
Wild narcissi in bloom on Mt Golica. Photo: Sara Erjavec Tekavec/STA
Even though the snow is gone, the slopes of Golica and the meadows of the villages at the foot of the Karavanke mountains are turning white at this time of year as wild daffodils are coming into bloom.
The delicate white narcissi bloom for about a month, coinciding with the local festival. This yea
A voter casing his vote in a referendum on special pension allowances for award-winning artists. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenian voters have rejected a bill that would have granted award-winning artists a special pension top-up in a referendum spearheaded by the largest opposition party, which called the result a "slap in the face" of the government.
Over 92% voted against the bill on 11 May on a turnout of 26%, wh
Primož Roglič in the Giro d'Italia's pink jersey in Tirana. Photo: Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
Primož Roglič finished second in stage 2 time trial of the Giro d'Italia around Tirana to claim the overall leader's pink jersey, reaffirming his position as the top favourite to win the race.
The Slovenian Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe rider tackled the mostly flat, 13.7 km stage around the Albanian cap

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Final event of Časoris's Face of the Year campaign highlighting children's achievements. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Children and youths are notoriously hard to reach by traditional news media. But what if the content is specifically tailored to them - and written by them? Časoris, a Slovenian outlet, shows this is possible, and it has been doing it for a full decade.
A play on časopis, the Slovenian word for new
Prime Minister Robert Golob present a new defence and security policy flanked by senior members of his cabinet. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenia plans to substantially raise defence spending to hit NATO's 2% of GDP target by the end of 2025, five years ahead of schedule, with a combination of higher outlays for the armed forces and by designating some existing expenditure on dual-use investments as defence spending.
Spending will i
The launch of the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
Slovenia inaugurated its pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture two days ahead of the official opening of the 19th iteration of the iconic festival. Themed Master Builders, the country's presentation highlights the importance of builders and their skills.
Curated by Ana Kosi and Ognen Arso
A QR code that visitors to Rafut Park can scan to collect a whole symphony's worth of music. Photo: Rosana Rijavec/STA

Park transforms into tree orchestra

European Capital of Culture 2025
What if an entire park resonated with the sound of music? This was the idea behind a new sound installation in Nova Gorica's Rafut Park, the entirety of which has become a tree orchestra of sorts.
Developed by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2025 European Capital of Culture, the sound
A house in the informal Roma village of Otavice near Ribnica in south Slovenia. Photo: Aleš Kocjan/STA
Slovenia's parliament has amended legislation on social transfers to reduce truancy rates among Roma children as part of broader efforts to improve the integration of often marginalised Roma communities.
Under the changes passed in a cross-partisan vote on 7 May, if a school inspector finds a child
The memorial park of the Ljubelj Nazi concentration camp. Photo: Jakob Pintar/STA
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

European Capital of Culture 2025

A QR code that visitors to Rafut Park can scan to collect a whole symphony's worth of music. Photo: Rosana Rijavec/STA

Park transforms into tree orchestra

European Capital of Culture 2025
What if an entire park resonated with the sound of music? This was the idea behind a new sound installation in Nova Gorica's Rafut Park, the entirety of which has become a tree orchestra of sorts.
Developed by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2025 European Capital of Culture, the sound
The Ingeborg Bachmann Dome in Nova Gorica. Photo: GO! 2025 Institute

Ingeborg Bachmann Dome relocates to Nova Gorica

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
An installation dedicated to the Austrian writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann has been put up in Nova Gorica to serve as a place for reflection and various events as part of the first cross-border European Capital of Culture until the end of autumn.
A temporary gift of the Carinthian Cultural Foundat
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

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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

Symbolic foundation stone of new ARNES data centre in Maribor. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Construction of new data centre launched

EconomyScience & Technology
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
The logo of the Slovenian Steel Group. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ), the country's largest steel producer, saw its loss balloon by 146% to over €46 million last year, which the company's management blames on geopolitical tensions, high energy costs and the new network fee charging model in the country.
Last year was one of the most diffi
A convenience store. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenia's annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.3% in April, up 0.3 percentage points on the month before, largely due to higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, data from the national Statistical Office shows.
The annual inflation rate has not been above 2% since May last year, when i

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Politics

A voter casing his vote in a referendum on special pension allowances for award-winning artists. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenian voters have rejected a bill that would have granted award-winning artists a special pension top-up in a referendum spearheaded by the largest opposition party, which called the result a "slap in the face" of the government.
Over 92% voted against the bill on 11 May on a turnout of 26%, wh
Prime Minister Robert Golob present a new defence and security policy flanked by senior members of his cabinet. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenia plans to substantially raise defence spending to hit NATO's 2% of GDP target by the end of 2025, five years ahead of schedule, with a combination of higher outlays for the armed forces and by designating some existing expenditure on dual-use investments as defence spending.
Spending will i
Media cameras. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
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

Society

Wild narcissi in bloom on Mt Golica. Photo: Sara Erjavec Tekavec/STA
Even though the snow is gone, the slopes of Golica and the meadows of the villages at the foot of the Karavanke mountains are turning white at this time of year as wild daffodils are coming into bloom.
The delicate white narcissi bloom for about a month, coinciding with the local festival. This yea
Final event of Časoris's Face of the Year campaign highlighting children's achievements. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Children and youths are notoriously hard to reach by traditional news media. But what if the content is specifically tailored to them - and written by them? Časoris, a Slovenian outlet, shows this is possible, and it has been doing it for a full decade.
A play on časopis, the Slovenian word for new
The launch of the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
Slovenia inaugurated its pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture two days ahead of the official opening of the 19th iteration of the iconic festival. Themed Master Builders, the country's presentation highlights the importance of builders and their skills.
Curated by Ana Kosi and Ognen Arso

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

Tadej Pogačar in action at the 2024 Tour de France. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The world's top-ranked road cycling rider Tadej Pogačar will end this season with a friendly competition leading from his home town to the top of his favourite hill, Krvavec.
On 12 October, 1,189 participants will enjoy racing the three-time Tour de France winner up 1,189 metres of ascent to the ba
Primož Roglič in the Giro d'Italia's pink jersey in Tirana. Photo: Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
Primož Roglič finished second in stage 2 time trial of the Giro d'Italia around Tirana to claim the overall leader's pink jersey, reaffirming his position as the top favourite to win the race.
The Slovenian Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe rider tackled the mostly flat, 13.7 km stage around the Albanian cap
Tadej Pogačar (centre) on the podium at the 2025 Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Photo: UAE Team Emirates X profile
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) rode to his third career Liège-Bastogne-Liège win and his ninth Monument victory with a 35-kilometre solo after shaking off his rivals on the Côte de La Redoute on 27 April.
"It's great to finish the first part of the season like this. I'm happy that the season

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