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Slovenia's tennis player Katarina Srebotnik won the WTA doubles tournament in Rome with her playing partner Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic in what is her 35th WTA doubles victory. ...

The business daily Finance says in Monday's commentary that the state is preserving the economic status quo because it wants to keep everything in control. This is why it is not in its interest to let anyone stick out from the average, it adds. ...

A week ahead of the EU elections, the Slovenian left bloc in is complete chaos, which is a consequence of the disarray in the outgoing puppet government of Alenka Bratušek, the right-leaning weekly Reporter says in its latest commentary. ...

The Democratic Party (SDS) have expanded their lead ahead of the Social Democrats (SD), who lost ground to the benefit of emerging parties, a poll commissioned by the daily Dnevnik and commercial broadcaster POP TV has found. Like the one in Delo, it also showed voters would prefer a snap election in autumn. ...

The supervisors of Eles have ordered a forensic audit in the state-owned power grid operator after receiving an anonymous report in April alleging a number of dubious deals in the last few years, including fixing of public procurement contracts, the daily Dnevnik reports on Monday. ...

Less than a week ahead of the Eurovote in Slovenia, a fifth of voters are still undecided who they will vote for, a poll by the Nova Gorica-based School of Advanced Social Studies (FUDŠ) suggests, favouring the European People's Party (EPP) affiliates as the winners. ...

The group around the state-owned NLB bank posted a EUR 28.6m net profit in the first quarter of 2014, with the core bank contributing EUR 23.6m, the management of the country's largest bank told the press on Monday. ...

Investment in human resources is the best possible investment to achieve economic growth and development in Europe and Africa, a conference designed to enhance cooperation between Slovenia and Africa heard on Monday. ...

The government appears to have found additional money to secure a continuation of subsidies for student transportation, as Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek told MPs Monday that the "subsidies would not be discontinued". ...

The reason Slovenia is mulling leaving the group of EU countries which want a financial transactions tax is that the proposed tax base is too narrow, which will substantially affect receipts, according to Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek. ...

Insurer Adriatic Slovenica collected EUR 306m in gross written premiums in 2013, clearing for the first time the EUR 300m mark, the company said on Monday. It paid out EUR 218m in damages. ...

Individuals and organisations across Slovenia have responded to appeals for help from the flood-stricken Balkans in an unprecedented show of solidarity since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. ...

The initiative of the opposition New Slovenia (NSi) proposing that the party which wins the EU election be given the power to propose Slovenia's European commissioner seems to be doomed as both the outgoing PM Alenka Bratušek and President Borut Pahor have rejected it in principle. ...

The group around the state-owned NLB bank posted a EUR 28.6m net profit in the first quarter of 2014, with the core bank contributing EUR 23.6m, the management of the country's largest bank told the press on Monday. ...

Below is a roundup of major events on Monday, 19 May, until 3 PM local time: ...

The SBI TOP blue chip index rose 5.28 points to 754.10 at the Ljubljana Stock Exchange on Monday, up 0.71% compared to Friday. ...

A poll by Ninamedia released on Monday shows that Slovenian seats in the EU Parliament could be distributed evenly among the right and left bloc, a departure from earlier polls suggesting a rout for the centre-right. ...

Below is a schedule of events for Tuesday, 20 May: ...

The Bank Asset Management Company (BAMC) has bought a luxurious residential development on the Slovenian coast for EUR 23m from the bankruptcy estate of builder GPG, Finance newspaper reports on Monday. ...

Art historian and philosopher Andrej Medved was honoured by museum professionals for his lifetime work with the Valvasor Award, an accolade given out by the Slovenian Museum Association, in Radovljica on Monday. ...