Following a weeks-long tug-of-war, representatives of the government and municipalities have reached an agreement on the state funding of municipalities for 2019, the Government Communication Office announced late on Tuesday. The figures are expected to be revealed on Wednesday, when the agreement is to be signed.
Economists Jože P. Damijan and Igor Masten are most often mentioned as possibly fit for the new boss of the central bank, yet none of the five candidates for the post enjoys the sufficient support of 46 votes in parliament as yet.
Meeting with representatives of the Slovenian minority in Austria ahead of Wednesday's working visit to Austria, Foreign Minister Miro Cerar agreed that the current funding provided for the minority by Austria is insufficient.
Foreign Minister Miro Cerar has confirmed that he will visit the US in December, having been invited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Since Slovenia endorsed the UN's global migration compact in spring, a number of countries have announced to withdraw from it, so in these circumstances, the new government coalition should discuss the matter, Foreign Minister Miro Cerar said amid calls for the government to reject the deal, due to be adopted next month.
Slovenia's major strategic asset in relation to China is its geo-strategic position or access to a 500-million European marker, Zdravko Počivalšek, the minister of economic development and technology, said during a visit to China, where he is presenting Slovenia's business and investment environment.
The central banks has greenlighted the takeover of Gorenjska Banka by the Serbian AIK Banka. Banka Slovenije gave the go-ahead for the Serbian bank to increase its stake in the Kranj-based bank to over 50% on 29 October, according to the central bank's web page.
Ivan Radan, a neurologist charged with killing four terminally ill patients with lethal injections, was acquitted as a trial that lasted almost three years concluded at the Ljubljana District Court on Tuesday.
Slovenian and Croatian defence ministers, Karl Erjavec and Damir Krstičević, met in Ljubljana on Tuesday, confirming good defence cooperation of the two countries. The working visit focuses above all on bilateral cooperation and security challenges common to both countries.
The European Court of Human Rights has initiated proceedings against Slovenia over the 2013 bank bailout, having merged several applications into a single case to examine whether shareholders and junior bondholders who were wiped out had enjoyed sufficient legal safeguards, attorney Miha Kunič told the STA on Tuesday.
Slovenia saw a seasonal increase in its unemployment total in October as first-time job seekers hit the market at the start of a new academic year, but the overall figure is still down 8.1% year-on-year.
Incumbent Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković and his main contender in the coming mayoral elections, Democrat (SDS) MP Anže Logar, faced off in a debate hosted by the newspaper Dnevnik late on Monday. Both believe they are men of their words, but their views on running the city diverge considerably.