The Constitutional Court has annulled in an unanimous decision the implementation of a provision from one of the legislative packages for mitigating the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic that extends accreditations to higher education institutions.

Two initiatives to put recently passed changes to the water act to a referendum have collected over 9,000 and 33,000 signatures, respectively, more than enough for the proposals to move to the next stage of proceedings. The motions were tabled in parliament today, both groups of NGOs said on Tuesday.

The registered jobless total was down for the second consecutive month in March, standing at 82,638, or 6.1% less than in February. The number is nevertheless 6.1% higher than the number of registered unemployed persons in Slovenia in the same month last year.

Seven Covid-19 patients died in Slovenia on Monday, as another 273 people tested positive in a total of 1,879 PCR tests, the government said on Tuesday. The rolling seven-day average dropped from 1,058 on Sunday to 943. The test positivity rate was at 14.4%, down by 4 percentage points over Sunday.