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Bitcoin crypto currency. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenia has the highest share of crypto-currency owners in the euro area, a survey by the European Central Bank (ECB) has found. It stands at 15%, compared to the euro area average of 9%.
"The share of respondents in the euro area who own crypto-assets has more than doubled between 2022 and 2024,
A mobile phone user. Photo: STA
The telecommunications company Telekom Slovenije will set up a public warning system to alert mobile phone users to extreme weather or natural disasters. The system will be powered by Intersec, the French company that has already set up such a system in other EU countries, including Austria and Cro
Tanja Permozer, head of the Slovenian Space Office. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Tanja Permozer, head of the Slovenian Space Office, sees full membership in the European Space Agency (ESA) as an important recognition that makes Slovenia part of the space elite. Major players in the space industry are showing interest in cooperation.
Slovenia will become a full member of ESA on
The Šoštanj thermal power station. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenia's sole remaining coal power station and only active coal mine will be bailed out by the state as a stop-gap measure before the country's exit from coal, planned for 2033.
An emergency bill passed by the National Assembly on 12 December provides for €403 million in transitional financing fo
Christmas presents. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Several companies in Slovenia will pay out generous Christmas bonuses to their employees this year, especially those in the pharmaceutical, financial and ICT sectors.
Left-wing Labour Minister Luka Mesec triggered a firestorm of criticism in 2022 by proposing a mandatory Christmas bonus and the pro
NATO flag. Photo: dpa/STA
Biosistemika, a Ljubljana-based company developing custom software solutions and products for laboratories, instrument manufacturers and software providers, has been selected to join the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) programme next year.
DIANA published a call for ap
An online porn site. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenia's Tax Administration plans to crack down on potentially unregistered earnings made by creators on OnlyFans, a platform best known for pornographic content, after securing transaction data for Slovenian creators for the last several years.
Several hundred residents of Slovenia are registere
A beehive. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenia hosted the first European Honey Contest at the weekend, featuring 114 contenders from eleven countries. Top places in all but one category went to Slovenian beekeepers.
The event, organised by the Slovenian Beekeepers' Association in cooperation with the Koper regional association of beeke
A laser at the Jožef Stefan Institute. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Matjaž Humar and Andrii Tykhonov, researchers at the Ljubljana Jožef Stefan Institute, have won European Research Council (ERC) grants to consolidate their independent research careers.
Humar will develop new sources of quantum light in soft and biological matter, while Tykhonov will try to accurat
Igor Akrapovič, the founder of the eponymous exhaust system maker. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenia has a plethora of companies that are world leaders in niche industries. Perhaps the best known among them is Akrapovič, a maker of exhaust systems that has grown in three decades from a motorcycle racer's obsession into a huge business with a worldwide presence that dictates global trends
A render of the new hotel. Image courtesy of Terme Snovik-Kamnik
Terme Snovik, a small spa close in north-central Slovenia, is embarking on its biggest expansion to date, a four-star hotel that comes with a price tag of €22 million.
Located close to Kamnik, 40 kilometres northeast of Ljubljana, the spa currently provides accommodation in eight apartment houses a