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Ljubljana – Prime Minister Robert Golob has called a high-level working meeting for Wednesday to discuss the challenges of high energy and food prices in a bid to secure political unity in adopting measures to address the cost-of-living crisis.

Ljubljana – A further 1,738 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Wednesday, an increase of 6% from the same day a week ago in a potential indication that the spread in transmissions may be slowing down. However, a public health official has projected that infections will keep rising for the next four weeks.

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Ljubljana – Slovenia’s electricity output dropped by over 8% last year while consumption rose by 3%. The country’s output met 83% of its needs, down by almost 10 percentage points from the year before but on a par with pre-pandemic years, a report from the Energy Agency shows. The output-to-consumption rate fell to 82.9% in 2021 from 92.6% in 2020.

Ljubljana – The proponents of two referendum initiatives challenging the changes to the communicable diseases act which govern epidemic restrictions are to start collecting signatures for the votes on 1 September if a referendum on the bill is permitted by legal experts.

Ljubljana – Slovenian ICT companies generated EUR 4.55 billion in revenue in 2020, which was 2% more than the year before and 34% more that a decade earlier. Their value added reached EUR 1.74 billion, which was 10% more than in 2019, and the number of people working in the sector exceeded 30,000.

Ljubljana – Boris Tomašič, executive director of NovaTV24.si, has commented on reports that he has acquired a stake in the media company running the news channel Nova24TV from Hungarian owners by saying that no transaction has been finalised yet. He said the company was a target of political pressure by the ruling coalition. “The information you have is inaccurate.

Brdo pri Kranju – The OECD recommends to Slovenia in its latest report to focus on high inflation in the short term and then accelerate reforms that would increase productivity, make growth more sustainable and address ageing. Absence of reforms is to put additional pressure on pensions, healthcare and the labour market.

Ljubljana – Slovenia is in the midst of a growing new wave of Covid with the latest statistics showing cases steadily rising, even as hospital figures continue to decline. A total of 461 cases were confirmed over the weekend, more than double the figure recorded last weekend. One person with Covid died, Health Ministry data show.

Ljubljana – In 2020 Slovenian employees spent 68.7% of their available working time effectively working, while absence from work accounted for 26.9% of their working time and meal breaks 4.4%, the Statistics Office has reported. The effective working time of employees in Slovenia amounted to 69% in the private sector and 67% in the public sector.