Police Commissioner Senad Jušić has stepped down in the face of mounting pressure on him and his boss, Interior Minister Boštjan Poklukar, following a court's decision that the procedure to appoint him was flawed.
Poklukar announced on 15 January that he had accepted the resignation offered to him
Slovenian police handled 46,192 cases of irregular migration last year, a decrease of 24% from the year before (60,595). Syrian nationals accounted for a third of the cases.
The number of processed cases involving Syrians nearly quadrupled year-on-year to 15,060, as the number of Afghan nationals a
The Maribor Synagogue, a medieval building that serves not as an active place of worship but as a Jewish cultural centre, was daubed with antisemitic graffiti over the weekend in a widely condemned incident.
Pictures released by the cultural centre on Facebook on 13 January show graffiti with the s
Slovenia's former President Borut Pahor has opted out of consideration for the post of the EU's next representative for the Belgrade-Prishtina dialogue, citing incompatible views on EU enlargement.
"My personal views on EU enlargement deviate from official EU policy," he said on 3 February as he an
A Slovenian-led European Citizens' Initiative in support of accessible and safe abortions across Europe has gathered the required one million signatures to merit consideration by the EU's executive.
"This is not a Christmas miracle. It's the power of our community," the campaign wrote on Instagram
Nazi and Fascist symbols will be banned in Slovenia under amendments passed by the National Assembly on 19 December. The opposition failed to push through a proposal to expand the ban to Communist symbols.
The amendments to the Protection of Public Order Act prohibit the glorification of Nazi and F
Slovenia's most senior officials, President Nataša Pirc Musar and Prime Minister Robert Golob, have had a strained relationship for months, but now tensions have escalated into an open political feud.
Although both come from the liberal bloc, the pair have been at odds ever since the president appo
The second of the two C-27J Spartan tactical military aircraft ordered by Slovenia from Italy touched down at the Cerklje ob Krki airbase on 17 December.
Slovenia commissioned the first Spartan in 2021 and the second one following a wildfire in the Kras region in the summer of 2022. The price tag f
Ksenija Klampfer, the labour minister in the 2018-2020 minority centre-left government of Marjan Šarec, has been appointed new minister of digital transformation. She succeeds Emilija Stojmenova Duh, who resigned in late September in the wake of an ethics breach.
After being sworn in on 17 December
