The European Commission has approved Slovenia’s EUR 8 million scheme to encourage freight transport to shift from road to rail and to remove technical barriers to interoperability. The money will come from the Recovery and Resilience Facility. In explaining its decision, the Commission said the measure is to benefit both the environment and mobility. “The …
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A commemoration was held on Wednesday evening at the National Hall in Trieste to pay tribute to late Slovenian author Boris Pahor, who died aged 108 in Trieste on Monday. Slovenian President Borut Pahor remembered him as a “stubborn and strong-willed person with a clearly developed moral compass, a man who embodied the resistance against …
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“I think this is political amateurism and not being aware of what kind of character suits Ljudmila Novak,” said political analyst Miran Videtič, who is convinced that Ljudmila Novak’s recent appearance in the European Parliament was a problem of her advisers. According to him, Novak’s behaviour does not match the policy of the Nova Slovenija party, …
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“What the future Prime Minister is saying is a lie, and if the Prime Minister is lying, this puts the entire government in a bad light and gives it bad credibility. I hope he does not lie in other areas as well,” said Ivo Boscarol, an entrepreneur and the father of Pipistrel, regarding the President …
After the election and swearing in of the new government in the National Assembly, the now-former Prime Minister Janez Jana handed over government affairs to his successor in the position of Prime Minister, Robert Golob. Namely, on Wednesday, with 53 votes in favour and 28 votes against, the deputies of the National Assembly confirmed the …
“Our country does not need to be normalised because Slovenia is already a normal country. However, it would be good to normalise the thinking of those who continue to believe that only a certain part of the population is called to lead this country,” the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Anže Logar, said at …
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Slovenia’s registered unemployment rate in the first quarter was at 4.3%, down by 0.2 percentage points from the last quarter of 2021. The survey unemployment rate for April was at 4%, flat with the rate a month ago but down 0.8 points from April 2021, the Statistics Office reported. Based on the labour survey, the …
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Slovenia’s annual inflation hit 8.1% in May, the highest rate since 2002, on the back of soaring fuel and food prices, the latest Statistics Office figures show. The monthly rate stood at 2%. Liquid fuels were almost 43% more expensive than a year ago, contributing 1.9 percentage points to the headline rate. Food prices, having …
The coastal town of Izola is ready for the 18th iteration of the Isola Cinema International Film Festival, which will take place from 1 to 5 June. Lovers of art film can look forward to 41 carefully picked feature and 71 short films, which will mostly be screened at three open air and two indoor …
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The upper Vipava Valley, SW, had been looking at an exceptional harvest of cherries this year, but the plans of local fruit growers were thwarted by the strong bora wind which virtually swept away the ripened cherries, also tearing down branches and young cherry trees at the weekend. “The damage is immense,” Bogdan Slokar, a …
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Three vending machines offering poems by Slovenian, Austrian and Leipzig-based poets will be set up in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on Wednesday. The project is the brainchild of poet and writer Matthias Göritz, currently serving as a professor of creative writing in Louisiana. The project is linked to the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2023, Slovenia will …
Janez Janša, the outgoing prime minister, urged the EU and the West to focus on military assistance to Ukraine rather than on sanctions as he arrived for the second day of meetings at the EU summit. Sanctions are not the key issue, he said, adding that the EU needed to step up military assistance to …
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