News

29 october 2014

The dailies Finance and Delo have reported that Croatia's Agrokor, the owner of retailer Konzum and as of June of Konzum's former Slovenian rival Mercator, is pressuring Mercator's suppliers into giving up 10% of the revenues secured last year through the two grocers.

28 october 2014

The bank health check that showed the two Slovenian banks requiring minimal capital injections are not surprising, analysts said after European Central Bank (ECB) released the results of stress tests in which the NLB and NKBM, were shown to have a combined shortfall of EUR 65m.

28 october 2014

A leading member of Spain's ruling People's Party (PP) has expressed her shame after the arrests of more than 50 prominent regional political figures.

27 october 2014

Kenyan runners dominated the 19th Ljubljana Marathon Sunday which saw Ishimael Bushendich equalise the event record with a run of 2 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds. In the women's competition the Kenyan Romo Janet won by a wide margin.

27 october 2014

Twenty-five major European banks could have failed in 2013 had there been a new financial crisis, but today half of them are out of danger.

24 october 2014

Austria's Sölden will launch this weekend the new season in which the hopes of Slovenian fans will again rest exclusively on giant slalom and downhill Olympic champion Tina Maze.

24 october 2014

Enver Hoxhaj has become the first government minister from Kosovo to officially visit Serbia since his country unilaterally seceded in 2008.

23 october 2014

In the midst of an economic downturn, European leaders will debate at this week's EU summit how to move towards a low carbon economy.