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The former biggest owner of the bankrupt Ljubljana road builder CPL, Ranko Mimović, pleaded guilty to fraud charges at the Ljubljana District Court on Thursday. He is looking at two years in prison. ...

A Slovenian NGO fighting corruption has secured integrity pledges by nearly two-thirds of all candidates running in the 25 May EU election, despite being shunned by some of the biggest parties in the country. ...

Former NKBM bank boss Matjaž Kovačič responded to Wednesday's media reports that he was in secret talks with ex-PM Janez Janša about a dubious EUR 60m deal the bank carried out in Croatia while bypassing the bank's supervisory bodies, saying that he cannot recall talking any business with Janša and questioning the source of the report. ...

Slovenian banks are expected to contribute around EUR 144m to a common EU bank rescue fund, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday, a day after most of the bloc's members signed an intergovernmental agreement on the EUR 55bn fund. ...

Slovenian blue chips continued their recent surge to push the SBI TOP benchmark index on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange 0.72% higher to 768.85 points on Thursday. ...

President Borut Pahor conferred on Thursday "The Apple of Inspiration" honour to basketball player Goran Dragić, who was declared the most improved NBA player this season. Pahor said that Dragić was a role model who inspires hope in people, also praising his community and humanitarian activities. ...

Below is a roundup of major events on Thursday, 22 May, until 3 PM local time: ...

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, best know for his post-modern, often dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2014 Vilenica Prize, which will be conferred at the Vilenica Festival in September, the Slovenian Writers' Association said Thursday. ...

Below is a schedule of events for Friday, 23 May: ...

Two Slovenian cookbooks were conferred Gourmand awards in their respective categories at the recent cookbooks fair in Beijing which closed on Thursday. Janez Bogataj's book on potica cake won best cookbook of East Europe award, while Božidar Jezernik's book won best coffee book award. ...

The National Assembly passed Thursday amendments to the act on inspections, putting in place a series of small changes that are designed to improve the effectiveness of inspections and help combat the shadow economy. ...

Representatives of the green parties from the Alps-Adriatic region held a press conference in Ljubljana's Prešeren Square on Thursday to invite the voters to cast their votes in Sunday's EU elections and call for cross-border cooperation in odder to solve the common problems in the region. ...

Automotive industry supplier Cimos, one of the biggest companies in Slovenia, will undergo court-supervised debt restructuring after the major creditors decided against a debt-to-equity conversion by the Thursday deadline. ...

Slovenia lost three spots from last year to place 55th on the 2014 World Competitiveness Scoreboard released by the Swiss management institute IMD. Peter Stanovnik of the Institute for Economic Research believes that the country lost ground mainly due to the state of public finances, while it faces other problems as well. ...

Slovenia will wake up to a sunny morning on Friday with temperatures between 8 and 15 degrees centigrade. Clouds will start to creep in from the west early in the day and occasional showers and storms will be possible in the west in the afternoon. Daytime highs will range from 22 to 28 degrees. ...

MPs, who failed to endorse key government-sponsored changes to the budget implementation act on Wednesday, acted irresponsibly, according to Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek. Apparently, a new coalition that does not care about the stability of public finances has been founded, the PM told the press on Thursday. ...

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted house searches in Koper and Ljubljana Thursday as part of an investigation of match-fixing in football. Four individuals have been brought in for questioning while a fifth suspect lives abroad. ...

The government has eliminated the unconstitutionality of a 2012 public finance act in the part relating to women public servants who were forced to retire earlier and under different old-age pension requirements than men. It equalled the conditions for both genders and sent the relevant changes to the act to parliament. ...

The Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) top candidate in the EU election Ivo Vajgl reassured voters at the closing event of their election campaign that he would put the protection of the elderly "on the daily agenda". "Thirteen is a lucky number for the pensioners," DeSUS head Karl Erjavec added. ...

Automotive industry supplier Cimos, one of the biggest companies in Slovenia, will undergo court-supervised debt restructuring after the major creditors decided against a debt-to-equity conversion by the Thursday deadline. ...