After city councillors in Gorizia voted against stripping fascist leader Benito Mussolini of the title of freeman of this Italian city, causing upset in Slovenia, a senior archivist has revealed that back in 1924 Mussolini was also declared a freeman of Piran, a town now in Slovenia, in a decision
Several Slovenian judges and a prosecutor have been targeted in posts on X following a recent arson attack on a judge's home in the eastern town of Brežice. As efforts are under way to track down the perpetrators, officials have expressed concern and condemnation.
One of the posts featured a list o
Slovenia's commissioner-designate for enlargement, Marta Kos, described a bigger and reformed EU as a strategic imperative and support for Ukraine as an absolute priority as she set out her vision at the hearing before the EU Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels on 7 November. Unof
As the Americans cast their votes to elect a new president and members of Congress, Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat of Slovenian descent, has won her fourth term as senator from Minnesota and far-right Republican Paul Gosar from Arizona has been re-elected to the House of Representatives.
Having won the
Lojze Peterle, Slovenia's first prime minister and a former foreign minister and long-serving member of the European Parliament, quit New Slovenia (NSi), the Christian democratic party he co-founded, citing fundamental differences between him and the leadership of the opposition party.
The move, an
Slovenian and UAE officials signed an agreement to establish a Slovenian-Arab business council during the first official trip by a Slovenian president to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 3 and 4 November.
President Nataša Pirc Musar met her counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 3 Nove
Slovenia's senior officials have voiced concern about the Israeli parliament's decision to pass legislation banning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This is a massive blow to international law and the UN Charter, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said befor
The National Assembly has passed the legal basis for the most far-reaching reform of Slovenia's public sector wage system in 15 years, which is to be phased in by 2028 at the cost of €1.4 billion.
Affecting around 190,000 public employees, the bill entails pay rises for both the lowest and top earn
US President Joe Biden received Prime Minister Robert Golob for a bilateral meeting at the White House on 22 October, thanking him again for Slovenia's cooperation in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West last summer. They also discussed the Middle East and potential Westinghouse cooper
