Ljubljana

Ljubljana – Following a two-week summer recess, the government cabinet will reconvene on Thursday. The government is expected to adopt further measures to address the high prices of energy expected in the autumn and winter. The ministers will be discussing cost of living allowances and measures to help businesses.

Ljubljana – The Slovenian men’s basketball team scored another win as it gears up for the EuroBasket, defeating Serbia 97:92 in an overtime thriller in Ljubljana on Wednesday evening that saw Slovenia’s Luka Dončić outplay the fellow NBA superstar Nikola Jokić.

Ljubljana – A total of 1,233 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia on Wednesday, almost a quarter fewer than the same day a week ago. No patients with Covid-19 died, data from the Health Ministry shows. A total of 88 patients still require hospital treatment for Covid as their main condition, including 11 who need intensive care.

Ljubljana – The shareholders of publisher Mladinska Knjiga, 83% of which is owned by Slovenia’s bad bank, replaced three of five supervisors on Thursday. Changes were also made to the articles of association, making it harder to dismiss supervisors and to change the articles of association.

Ljubljana – The government has formally initiated a revision of this year’s national budget by triggering provision of the act on public finances that allows it to temporarily suspend the implementation of expenditures. This will be followed by the drafting of a supplementary budget.

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) presented on Thursday a two-phase approach to dealing with the coronavirus this autumn and winter, with epidemiologist Mario Fafangel underlining the importance of predictability of measures.

Ljubljana/Brussels – The web portal Necenzurirano reports that the European Commission has frozen the in-depth investigation of the purchase of service stations of OMV Slovenija by the Hungarian energy group MOL until further notice. The investigation will resume after the Commission receives the required documentation from MOL.

Ljubljana – It is high time that after years of talk, Prekmurje region was helped make a development breakthrough, Prime Minister Robert Golob said in a message he wrote on the Day of Unification of Prekmurje Slovenians with the Homeland, which is celebrated on 17 August.

Ljubljana – A total of 2,591 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia on Tuesday, more than a third more than a week earlier, which may be attributed to reduced testing on public holiday on Monday. One patient died, Health Ministry data shows.

Ljubljana – The opposition New Slovenia (NSi) has urged the government not to reverse the tax reform introduced by the previous government, while also noting that it should prepare a package of targeted measures to help vulnerable groups as well as measures to help business cope with the growing energy prices.