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Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič has acknowledged that Slovenia is and will remain behind schedule in drawing funds from the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility, largely due to a misguided approach taken by the previous government. But the first payment is due in April and he remains confident it will be possible to secure all the funds available until the end of 2026.

Washington – Global economy is in trouble, but given the circumstances Slovenia is in a relatively good financial and economic shape, Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič and Banka Slovenije Governor Boštjan Vasle said at the end of the a meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, US. The talks focussed on inflation.

Berlin – Slovenia beat Belgium 88:72 (24:19, 44:41, 63:60) in Berlin on Saturday to advance to the quarter finals at the 2022 EuroBasket. The defending champions will thus play the winner of Sunday’s Ukraine-Poland match on Wednesday.

Ljubljana – The corporate sector will need aid in excess of EUR 1.5 billion to cope with high energy prices, Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Monday after meeting with representatives of business associations. The exact scope of the aid will depend on how successful reform of EU energy markets will be.

Just weeks ago Golob said that aid would have to amount to a billion euros.

Cologne – Slovenia easily defeated Hungary 103:88 (29:16, 54:33, 88:60) in the second round of play at the Eurobasket on Saturday night.

The team started out with a 18:2 run and opened a 24-point gap by the first half, allowing coach Aleksander Sekulić to give the top players some rest ahead of the deciding games.

Ljubljana – Presenting the draft supplemental budget for 2022, which “has no budget user getting less”, Finance Minister Klemen Boštjaničič said the changes were needed due to measures adopted by the previous government. The proposal envisages expenditure increasing by EUR 600 million to 14.6 billion without significantly changing the deficit.

Ljubljana – Slovenia won against Cameroon (3:0) in their first match at the Volleyball Men’s World Championship in Ljubljana on Friday.

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.

Radovljica – The quaint town of Radovljica in the north-west of the country will host the 40th iteration of its early music festival from 5 to 23 August. This year, the festival will focus on music from the 16th to the 20th century.

Ljubljana – The Constitutional Court legalised same-sex marriage and adoptions with immediate effect after finding a law under which only heterosexual partners can marry and same-sex couples cannot adopt children to be in contravention of the constitutional ban on discrimination.