News roundup - Monday, 31 July

Slovenia's annual inflation slows to 6.1%

LJUBLJANA - Slovenia's annual inflation rate slowed to 6.1% in July, 0.8 percentage points lower than the month before. Data from the Statistics Office shows inflation keeps being driven by hikes in the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which rose by 11.1% in a year, contributing 2 points to the annual inflation rate. Prices of services increased by an average 8.3% in a year as prices of goods rose by 5%.

Petrol, diesel prices up by almost 4% on Tuesday

LJUBLJANA - Regulated prices of fuel will increase at midnight by almost 4%, with regular petrol off the motorway network being sold at EUR 1.511 a litre, up 5.5 cents, and diesel at EUR 1.558 a litre, up 5.4 cents. Heating oil will cost EUR 1.081 a litre, up by 4.9 cents or more than 4%. The last time a litre of regular petrol cost more than EUR 1.5 was exactly one year ago, while the retail price of diesel will rise on Tuesday to the highest level since November last year. The prices will be in force until 14 August.

Early warning system to be introduced in autumn

LJUBLJANA - A public system of warnings about extreme weather or natural disasters should be up and running in Slovenia this autumn, said the Ministry of Digital Transformation, after media suggested last week, amid fierce storms hitting the country, that residents should have been warned more effectively about the looming storms. Once such a system is implemented, mobile services providers will send people alerts about extreme weather or natural disasters.

Ljubljana hosts summer school in logic, language and information

LJUBLJANA - The 34th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2023) opened at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, featuring until 11 August more than 50 seminars and workshops and around 450 participants from all over the world. Slavko Žitnik, the head of the organising committee, said that the summer school is primarily intended for master's and doctoral students, junior researchers and employees in high-tech companies dealing with natural language processing or linguistics.

Three museums with show on globetrotter Karlin in Frankfurt

FRANKFURT, Germany - Three Slovenian museums will be featured in Frankfurt from mid-September with a joint exhibition on writer and globetrotter Alma Karlin (1889-1950). The exhibition Alma Maksimilijana Karlin - the Writer, which comes in the run-up to Slovenia being the guest of honour at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair, is set up by the Celje Regional Museum, the Celje Museum of Contemporary History and the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, and on display until 23 November in Haus am Dom - Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus.

Former President Pahor's Instagram gets hacked

LJUBLJANA - Former President Borut Pahor's Instagram account was hacked last night, but has been recovered since with the help of US multinational technology conglomerate Meta, which owns and operates Instagram. However, some posts have been lost, Pahor said, adding that they are trying to recover them. An avid user of social media, the former president has some 137,000 followers on Instagram.