Slovenia

Ljubljana – Foreign Minister Anže Logar is recovering at Ljubljana’s medical centre (UKC) after undergoing surgery for appendicitis yesterday, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

Ljubljana – Slovenia will produce 10-15% less wine than last year, mostly due to the Dolenjska wine region being strongly affected by the spring frost. However, wine growers around the country report it has been an above-average year in terms of quality.

Kazan – Katja Fain has secured a bronze for Slovenia in the women’s 200 metre freestyle at the European Short Course Swimming Championship in Kazan, Russia.

The 20-year-old clocked 1:53.88 minutes to set a new national record, with a 0.3 gap to Czech Barbora Seemanova in second and an 1.13 lag behind the winner Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands.

Ljubljana – Foreign Minister Anže Logar has been admitted to the UKC Ljubljana medical centre, reported the news portal Siol.net on Saturday. According to unofficial information, the minister has appendicitis and is awaiting surgery.

No further information on his condition is yet available.

Koper – The Koper cathedral will inaugurate its new organ at Saturday’s mass, which is to be attended by Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia Jean-Marie Speich and President Borut Pahor. The organ, which came from the famous Tonhalle concert hall in Zurich, is the second largest in Slovenia and will sound in a concert for the first time in the country on Sunday.

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has decided to call a general election on the first possible date, 24 April 2022, “but if he expected to calm down the increasingly tense situation in the country, he was very wrong”, the newspaper Večer says in Saturday’s commentary under the headline No Reprieve.

Ljubljana – While some Slovenian employers are struggling to find staff, more than 32,000 Slovenian residents commute daily to work abroad, most of them to Austria, where the average pay is more than double Slovenia’s. The Slovenian Financial Administration (FURS) does not keep record of workers living in Slovenia but commuting to work in Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia.

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 3,662 new coronavirus infections on Friday with the positivity rate standing at 38.1%, up slightly on the day before, show fresh figures by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). Data from the tracker site Covid-19 Sledilnik show 14 Covid-19 patients died.

Ljubljana – The supervisory board of Elektro Ljubljana, Slovenia’s largest electricity distributor, dismissed on Friday the company’s chairman Andrej Ribič, reported the N1 portal, quoting the Pozareport portal’s Twitter post. The reason for the dismissal is not known, and the current chief financial officer Marjan Ravnikar is to take over the management of the company, N1 said.

Ljubljana – After President Borut Pahor announced he would call a general election for 24 April, this triggered varied reactions from political parties all across the political spectrum. Coalition partners largely welcomed this decision, while opposition parties mostly still favour the increasingly unlikely option of a snap election.