News

13 october 2014

Finance Minister Dušan Mramor will attend a session of the Eurogroup Monday, his first meeting with his eurozone peers since he was appointed minister. He is expected to present Slovenia's fiscal priorities, most notably the government's plans to revise the budgets for 2014 and 2015.

10 october 2014

Patrick Modiano faced the media after being awarded with the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

10 october 2014

A day after being overwhelmingly rejected by two committees in the European Parliament, former Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek withdrew her bid to become a vice-president of the EU Commission on Thursday, prompting a scramble to put forward a new nominee.

9 october 2014

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have pledged to commit some 6.4 billion euros towards tackling youth unemployment.

9 october 2014

Several investors have submitted bids for NKBM bank and Telekom Slovenije, the two biggest firms slated for privatisation, POP TV reported Wednesday. The Slovenia Sovereign Holding (SSH) has received at least two binding bids for NKBM while four or five investors are still in the race for Telekom.

8 october 2014

Belgium is at last about to have a government ending nearly five months without one since the May 25 elections.

8 october 2014

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected for Slovenia's economy to expand by 1.4% this year and by as much the next, in a marked upgrade on its April forecasts.

7 october 2014

For those with a head for heights, visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris is now more of an adventure than ever - thanks to a new glass floor offering a tantalisingly jaw-dropping view.