The number of persons in paid employment stood at an all-time high of 911,820 at the end of October, having increased by 2.4% on the year before and 0.6% on September, the Statistics Office said. The number of those working for legal and natural persons, and the number of the self-employed rose by a similar …
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The National Assembly passed changes to the investment promotion act under which the state will no longer provide incentives based on the creation of jobs but will encourage high-capital-intensive, high-productivity and green investments to support Slovenia and the EU’s green transition. The amendments, which were passed by 48 votes to eight, create the basis for …
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A school in the lakeside town of Bled has been closed mid school year, hence leaving 33 pupils without classes. They are now home-schooled. The school was operating without approval and did not meet the required conditions, the web portal 24ur.com has reported. It also promoted itself as a Waldorf school despite not getting Waldorf …
On the margins of the European Council meeting yesterday in Brussels, Prime Minister Janez Janša signed the Joint Declaration of the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission on the EU’s legislative priorities for 2022. A resilient and reinvigorated EU will remain at the forefront of events in the year ahead. …
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar met with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris yesterday. The main purpose of his visit to France was to outline the achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and to discuss future work on the key European dossiers …
Slovenian writer Drago Jančar won the Milovan Vidaković International Literary Prize, awarded at the Prosefest international prose festival in Serbia’s Novi Sad. This year’s 15th edition of the festival, organised by the Novi Sad Cultural Centre, is taking place online between 13 and 16 December. Jančar’s novels and essays have been translated into 21 languages …
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Vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 is starting in Slovenia as the vaccine for them is already available. Vaccination will take place at vaccination centres, and from Thursday on, also at UKC Ljubljana hospital’s Paediatric Clinic, where 70 children have been already registered for a jab. This comes as the advisory group on immunization …
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President Borut Pahor received the credentials of three new ambassadors accredited to Slovenia, Kosovo’s Valdet Sadiku, the Dominican Republic’s Laura V. Faxas and New Zealand’s Brian Joseph Hewson, at the Presidential Palace. The Kosovo ambassador is based in Ljubljana. The ambassador of the Dominican Republic and the ambassador of New Zealand are meanwhile headquartered in …
The highly infectious Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 has been confirmed in Slovenia with PM Janez Janša announcing the news in parliament before Miroslav Petrovec, the head of the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, told reporters the new variant was confirmed in four samples, all of them from Ljubljana. One of the persons had already had …
The government will decide on whether to introduce energy vouchers for the poorest households in January, when it has more data about energy price increases. Before that, the main measure to combat rising prices will be the special allowance for pensioners, included in the latest Covid relief package, PM Janez Janša told MPs. The energy …
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“We had a thorough and exhaustive discussion on migration and the rule of law,” PM Orban said during a joint press briefing, following a meeting of the premiers of the V4 countries and France. At the meeting of the Visegrad Group countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) and France, Hungary’s premier emphasized that …
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An African migrant sexually assaulted a French activist against mass migration, as he broke into her home. Thaïs d’Escufon, a former spokeswoman for the banned Generation Identity movement, talked with Le Figaro about the attack. The activist was returning home after a gym session in Lyon when she was attacked by a man who told her …
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