“Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Sarec said on Wednesday he saw no possibility of progress in the relations between Slovenia and Croatia as long as Zagreb continues to reject the arbitration ruling determining the border between the two countries. Slovenia’s previous government, led by Miro Cerar, who is currently […]
Photo: Visit Ljubljana“Foreign-owned high-tech companies RLS and Bosch Rexroth, airport operator Fraport Slovenija and logistics firm Cargo-Partner have won the Invest Slovenia FDI Award to become this year’s best foreign investors in their respective categories. The awards were given out by the SPIRIT agency in Brdo pri Kranju on Tuesday […]
“Slovenia has become the only Nato country to appoint a woman as head of its army. Maj Gen Alenka Ermenc will take up the post of chief of staff on Wednesday. The 55-year-old former army commander began her military career in 1991, when the country won its independence […]
Photo: Army Times“The government will replace the Chief of General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces (SV), Major General Alan Geder, and named Alenka Ermenc as his replacement, Minister of Defense Karl Erjavec confirmed to STA. Ermenc was named Major General yesterday. As the new head of the General Staff […]
“Foreign Minister Miro Cerar, accompanied by a 20-strong business delegation, will pay a visit to Albania on Monday. The focus of the business talks will be on the environment, especially the treatment of waste waters, drinking water and dumping grounds, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) said […]
Photo: Bryan Nakata/SeattlePI“Leaning over a glass table in his studio, Slovenia-born artist Miha Sarani shades in the leg of an Italian officer with his black-ink pen. He pauses, picks up the sketch to compare it to the photograph he’s drawing from, and places the image back down on the table, […]
Photo: Stockholm Center for Freedom“Slovenia is supportive of the idea of an EU military force, but its Defence Minister Karl Erjavec warned against demands that would require EU and NATO member states to double their capabilities. The EU’s security and defence policy is already headed that way, but political consensus will likely […]
“Egypt’s Minister of Military Production Mohamed El-Assar attended on Tuesday in Cairo the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Egypt’s National Organisation for Military Production and the Slovenian company Iskra to cooperate in the field of developing infrastructure to distribute energy. The ambassador of Slovenia Mateja […]
Photo: Bank of Slovenia“The top two candidates for Slovenia’s open seat at the European Central Bank couldn’t be further apart on the subject of the euro zone. Both are economics professors at the University of Ljubljana but while one, Igor Masten, has written papers on its monetary policy, the other, Joze Damijan once […]
“Slovenia’s local elections delivered few surprises. Incumbents ruled supreme carrying the biggest cities except for Koper, conservative parties did even better than last time around, centrist parties continued to lose ground, and independents became an even more formidable force, in a continuation of a long trend. In the […]