IMAD, the government's macroeconomic forecaster, significantly upgraded its growth forecast for the year Thursday. The economy is projected to expand by 2% this year, up from its spring forecast of 0.5%. ...
Below is a schedule of events for Thursday, 25 September: ...
A two-day seminar on credit growth in Central, Eastern and SE Europe organised by Slovenia's central bank and the IMF will start in Portorož on Thursday. The closed-door event will feature representatives of central banks, financial institutions and academia from the region. ...
The government of Miro Cerar will meet on Thursday for its first regular session. While no major decisions have been announced, the cabinet will expectedly deal with staffing, as several ministries are still without state secretaries. ...
Branko Rožič, the boss of cardboard maker Količevo karton for almost two decades, has been named manager of the year by the Manager Association and will receive the award at the association's annual gathering in Portorož on Thursday. ...
Delo argues in Thursday's commentary that the attack on the Islamic State is a mistake that US President Barack Obama is carrying out to avoid looking incompetent and to pursue "the logic of the empire that he serves". ...
Moderately to predominantly cloudy skies with intermittent rain are expected in Slovenia on Thursday. Temperatures will range between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius in the morning and 14 and 18 during the day. ...
Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Thursday, 25 September: ...
The United Nations has been organising big climate conferences for twenty years, but they are yet to produce any results beyond emotional speeches and more or less ambitious yet infeasible documents, Dnevnik comments in Thursday's "Day for Big Words". ...
The government of Miro Cerar is Slovenia's eighth post-communist government, the right-wing magazine Demokracija comments on Thursday, noting that 16 years of "centre-left, socialist and post-communist governments" are largely to blame for the deep economic, social and moral crisis in Slovenia. ...
President Borut Pahor met his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday, in what was the first meeting at the presidential level between Slovenia and Iran. The presidents talked about boosting cooperation and exchanged views on topical regional and global issues. ...
British expert Keith Miles has stepped down from the supervisory board of the state-owned NKBM bank with immediate effect. While the bank did not reveal the reasons for his resignation Wednesday, Miles himself expounded at length about his move in an op-ed for Finance Thursday. ...
Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec told the STA on Thursday that while Slovenia was committed to the fight against international terrorism, the fact was that it did not give its consent to be put on the State Department's list of coalition partners in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS). ...
The third Bonaca fair on camping and caravanning, nautical tourism and green energy opened on Thursday in Portorož Marina. Running until 28 September, the fair will also feature a number of accompanying events and a competition for the skipper of the year. ...
Business sentiment indicator in Slovenia was up in September, improving by one percentage point over August and eleven points over the same month last year, data from the Statistics Office show. It was also two points above the long-term average. ...
President of the Murska Sobota Local Court Darinka Pušenjak is facing disciplinary sanctions over an incident from late August when she gave false personal information to the police, the daily Delo reported on Thursday. ...
The Bank Assets Management Company (BAMC), Slovenia's bad bank, said Thursday it would push for legislative changes now that its operation is in full swing and it expects to shortly receive EUR 450m in assets from Abanka, the last of the three banks bailed out and nationalised in December. ...
The Islamic Community, the main Muslim religious group in Slovenia, has labelled the recent landmark translation of the Quran from Arabic into Slovenian as "unprofessional", which it says is the reason why it did not endorse it. ...
Bread and pasta maker Žito, one of the companies planned for privatisation, saw its half-year consolidated net profit rise by 11% year-on-year to EUR 602,571 with sales revenue flat at EUR 53.7m. ...
Below is a schedule of events for Thursday, 28 August: ...