Pharmaceutical, IT and energy companies paid the highest salaries in Slovenia last year, with SAP and Microsoft topping the list, according to data compiled by the business news portal Finance. Slovenia Control ranks the highest among local companies.
The Slovenian offices of the software companies

The Slovenian meat processing company Celjske Mesnine has been sold to the Croatian company Mesna Industrija Braća Pivac. The news comes just two weeks after a majority stake in Slovenia's leading agri-food company, Panvita, was acquired by Croatian services company Mplus.
Like in the case of Panvi

A €45 million office complex is under construction next to the Ljubljana ring road in the Šiška borough which the investors plan will become part of a new business district in the coming years.
The first building of the sustainability-oriented Westlink Campus project will mostly feature offices. It

Slovenia and the United Kingdom explored ways to boost cooperation in the defence sector at an event in Ljubljana called the Slovenian-British Day of Defence Industry. That is seen as a must in light of the tense situation in Europe and the world.
The cooperation between Slovenia and Great Britain

The Constitutional Court has rejected the opposition's request to stay referendums on assisted dying and cannabis use, which are due to be held alongside another referendum and the EU election in Slovenia on 9 June.
The court announced its decision not to stay the consultative referendum on assiste

A video of a group of masked men threatening violence against migrants that appeared on social media the past weekend has caused upset in Slovenia. While police are looking into the matter, the country's top officials condemned the alleged incident.
The video shows the men, wearing what looks like

A partly retractable roof covering the ruins of the Church of St John the Baptist at Žička Kartuzija, the oldest charterhouse in Slovenia, has won the architects the top national prize in architecture on top of international accolades.
Rok Žnidaršič, Jerneja Fischer Knap, Samo Mlakar, Katja Ivić an

The Australian Wheen Bee Foundation is the winner of this year's Golden Bee award, a prize given out by Slovenia on World Bee Day in recognition of achievements in the promotion, conservation and research of bees and other pollinators.
The Wheen Bee Foundation is a non-profit organisation raising a

Bee may be the buzzword as World Bee Day is celebrated around the globe at Slovenia's initiative on 20 May, but the day underlines the importance of all pollinators, including bumblebees, which researchers say are doing a tremendous job.
Bumblebees, solitary bees, hoverflies, butterflies and other

The Jožef Stefan Institute, the country's leading scientific research institution, opens its doors wide to the public for a week every year to present scientific achievements in accessible ways. This is especially important at a time when it is often difficult to separate quasi-science from scienc

The green transition is not just a moral imperative but a vital driver of Europe's economic competitiveness, Kyriacos Kakouris, vice-president of the European Investment Bank, writes in his op-ed for the Slovenia Times as he sets out the bank's role in financing climate action and fostering sustain

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