The Latest Breaking News from Slovenia

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said his talks with the President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, on Monday were constructive and would contribute to developing relations between the two countries at various levels. The talks between the two officials focused on bilateral cooperation between Qatar and…

Strictly It Takes Two host Janette Manrara enjoys the sunshine with a good book at Aljaz Skorjanec's Balkan home

More popular holiday destinations have relaxed Covid travel rules.

The winner of last weekend parliamentary vote in Slovenia says he hopes to have a new government formed by mid-June

Robert Golob’s victory against Janez Janša is ‘a chance to make Europe stronger’

Preliminary figures show opposition Freedom Movement party leading with 34.34 percent of the vote.

Only months ago, Robert Golob was virtually unknown in politics, didn’t belong to any party, but had a clear goal: remove Slovenian populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa from power and stop a democratic backslide in the tiny Alpine state

In 2017, France bucked the populist trend by voting for Emmanuel Macron against europhobic Marine Le Pen. In 2022, it has done so again – just as Slovenia looks set to eject its nationalist leader.

A newly formed protest party in Slovenia beat Janez Jansa, a nationalist prime minister who has challenged the European Union’s democratic standards, by an unexpectedly wide margin in general elections.