A €45 million office complex is under construction next to the Ljubljana ring road in the Šiška borough which the investors plan will become part of a new business district in the coming years.
The first building of the sustainability-oriented Westlink Campus project will mostly feature offices. It

A €165 million wind farm has been inaugurated in eastern Serbia in a Slovenian-Serbian joint venture that is one of the biggest renewables projects in the former Yugoslavia.
The Slovenian company Alfi Renewables, acting through its Alfi Green Energy Fund, secured half of the funding for the Krivača

Slovenia's NLB bank has announced its intention to launch a voluntary public takeover bid aimed to acquire control of the Austrian Addiko Bank. Its bid will rival that of Agri Europe, a Serbian-owned group.
Announcing its intention on the website of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange late on 15 May, NLB

Slovenian fishermen fined by Croatia for fishing in waters that a border arbitration tribunal awarded to Slovenia in 2017 have failed with their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which declared their applications inadmissible.
In a decision issued on 16 May, the Strasbourg court

Hard on the heels of her visit to the Middle East and the Slovenian government's decision to start procedures to recognise Palestinian statehood, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon returned to the region for a tour taking her to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The Middle-East cri

Staff at 34 out of Slovenia's 58 administrative units went on all-out strike on 15 May after failing to have their demands for better pay and extra staff met despite staging strikes every Wednesday for the past two months. Staff at another 15 units will continue to hold one-day strikes.
The employe

A global survey conducted in 39 countries suggests that Slovenia has the lowest proportion of people struggling to make ends meet, while the share of people who live comfortably is well above the global and European averages.
The survey, conducted by the Mediana Institute in Slovenia in cooperation

Ana Karneža, a Slovenian actor and singer, currently finishing her last year of the MFA acting program at the Juilliard School, won the first prize in 2024 Lenya Competition in the US in early May. She was shortlisted for the prize among 286 candidates from 25 countries.
"With a commanding performa

A total of 37,002 people participated in the three-day sports event Walk along the Wire, which annually commemorates the liberation of Ljubljana in the Second World War. Popular among hikers and runners, the event kicked off on 9 May, when the capital celebrated Ljubljana Day alongside Europe Day.

The Jožef Stefan Institute, the country's leading scientific research institution, opens its doors wide to the public for a week every year to present scientific achievements in accessible ways. This is especially important at a time when it is often difficult to separate quasi-science from scienc

The green transition is not just a moral imperative but a vital driver of Europe's economic competitiveness, Kyriacos Kakouris, vice-president of the European Investment Bank, writes in his op-ed for the Slovenia Times as he sets out the bank's role in financing climate action and fostering sustain

In his op-ed for Bled Strategic Times ahead of the Bled Strategic Forum, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob makes a call for "global solidarity to save our planet", combining it with an appeal to Russia to end the war of aggression against Ukraine.
In the first days of August, as I was walking t