Slovenia has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world but the country's prisons have long been overcrowded and understaffed with the latest report by the Council of Europe saying the situation keeps getting worse.
Compared to 2017, there "has been a sharp increase in the number of prisone
Slovenian researcher Teja Potočnik, the founder and CEO of UK-based startup Nanomation, is one of ten innovators selected from 450 candidates to receive the European Patent Office's (EPO) Young Inventors Prize this June.
At Nanomation, the startup she founded during her PhD studies at Cambridge, Po
The Idrija miners' brass band is the oldest in Slovenia and one of the oldest worldwide. Dating back to the 17th century, the ensemble celebrates its 360th anniversary this year, and anyone interested to learn more about its storied past can visit an exhibition in Idrija, a western town known for i
Labour Day celebrations in Slovenia are traditionally associated with bonfires, brass band performances, maypoles and mass gatherings, and this year is no different.
As the dark fell on the eve of Labour Day, hundreds of bonfires were lit across the country. Crowds big and small gathered around the
More than two weeks after the Maximarket department store in the centre of Ljubljana detected contamination in its water supply system, the cause has still not been detected as affected eateries in the complex remain closed and some people are still sick.
The National Institute of Public Health (NI
Amnesty International has raised inadequate access to primary healthcare due to a shortage of GPs and gynaecologists as one of the burning issues in Slovenia in its latest annual report on the state of human rights worldwide.
The report notes that a shortage of family doctors left about 140,000 peo
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
An initial report into the 10 March plane crash at Velika Planina that killed Swedish businessman and former politician Carl Lundström has confirmed weather conditions were unfavourable for flying, but does not yet formally conclude poor weather as the most likely cause of the accident.
The flight
Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not visit Slovenia as pope but he did visit as a Jesuit priest in his 30s when he had his first taste of potica - a pastry that he came to love and would forever associate with Slovenia.
The future pope visited Slovenia for the first time in 1970 when he spent a week with
