News

15 september 2014

The hearings of ministerial nominees will continue at relevant parliamentary committees on Monday, among others of the nominees for economy, finance and justice ministers. The government of Miro Cerar as a whole is meanwhile expected to be put to vote in the National Assembly on Thursday.

12 september 2014

Industrial output continues to grow in Slovenia, the data presented by the Statistics Office on Wednesday shows. It grew by 2.3% in July over June, after a 2.7% increase was recorded in the first half of the year.

12 september 2014

Yahoo said the US government threatened to fine it $250,000 a day if the search giant failed to hand over user data.

11 september 2014

Slovenia is still lagging behind average tertiary educational attainment despite a marked increase in recent years, while it also boasts the smallest gender gap in earnings and high enrolment in pre-primary education, a report OECD has found.

11 september 2014

Following the death of Emilio Botin, who headed Spanish bank Santander for 28 years, his daughter Ana Patricia has been named as the new chairwoman.

10 september 2014

Slovenia has informed the European Commission that the majority state-owned sports goods manufacturer Elan could be sold by the end of the year so the company would also be able to repay the EUR 10m in illegal state aid.

10 september 2014

The sanctions squeeze is on at Russia's biggest oil firm Rosneft.

9 september 2014

The heads of the Party of Miro Cerar (SMC), the Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) and the Social Democrats (SD) signed Monday a coalition agreement for the incoming centre-left government, ending almost six weeks of negotiations. The new government is expected to be inaugurated on 18 September.