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The government, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) and education and research institutions have agreed to enter strategic cooperation to bring about an innovation breakthrough in the country to increase value added it generates.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) forecasts a baseline-scenario GDP growth of 1.1% for Slovenia in 2023. Growth is expected to pick up to 2.3% in 2024 and to 3.0% in 2025. The GZS’s analysts, who still projected 3.2% growth for 2023 in April, expect household and government spending to increase by 1.5% next year and gross investment to rise by 4.0%.

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to cooperate in promoting Slovenian companies’ cooperation with CERN in Geneva, which operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory and is the site of the world’s largest particle accelerator.

Ljubljana – The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) is unhappy with the government’s plan to revoke parts of the tax reform adopted by the previous government, including a continued increase in the general tax relief for all earners. In a written response to the proposal, the GZS hails the government’s plan for a comprehensive tax reform to be be passed by 2024.

Ljubljana – The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) has backtracked on an appeal to the government that Slovenia should not support Russia’s exclusion from the international payment system SWIFT. “We accept all sanctions that the EU will adopt due to the aggression on Ukraine,” GZS director general Aleš Cantarutti said in a written statement on Saturday.

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) expressed its support on Wednesday for the new draft bill on cryptocurrency taxation, as it believes the additional state budget revenue could contribute to a tax relief on net wages, which the GZS has long advocated for.

Dubai – A delegation of 36 Slovenian business representatives of 19 companies is heading to Dubai on Sunday for a three-day visit of the Expo show focussing on digitalisation and artificial intelligence. The country’s administration minister will also be on hand.

Ljubljana – The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) and the Chamber of Craft and Small Business (OZS) strongly opposed PM Janez Janša’s hints of a possible closure of the economy due to the poor epidemiological situation, with business representatives reiterating on Tuesday that they simply could not afford that.

Ljubljana – Amid a prospering situation in the labour market and favourable unemployment trends, employers have been recording the largest structural imbalances between the registered jobless and companies’ needs since the 2008 financial crisis. Businesses highlight that the paperwork to hire foreign workers takes too long.

Ljubljana – Hauliers, who have been severely hit by the Covid pandemic, can now count on EUR 35 million in loans to weather liquidity issues, while they can also look forward to some 10 million in grants in coming months.

A contract on financing and implementing the new scheme was signed on Monday by Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec and SIB Banka chairman Sibil Svilan.