The upper chamber of parliament has vetoed a recently passed bill granting top artists a special pension allowance, arguing that it is vague and discriminatory to other professions.

Some 1,850 people are learning Slovenian at a number of universities across the world, according to data from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, which spent EUR 2.4 million on the relevant programme in 2024.

An Austrian-Slovenian group exhibition focusing on how urban places are created and perceived is opening at the Gallery of Modern Art in Celje on Friday evening. Termed How do you feel about Celje? How do you feel Graz?, it addresses decentralisation from various aspects.

Artists who have received the nation's top prizes for the arts will be eligible for a special pension allowance upon retirement under a new bill that the National Assembly passed in a partisan 49:25 vote on Friday.

Archaeologists have presented finds from the ancient Roman city of Emona that have been dug out in the area where a new National and University Library (NUK II) is to be built in Ljubljana. They have found two residential buildings, known as insulae in Latin, including remains of a swimming pool and an heating system known as the hypocaust.

The European Commission has awarded the EUR 1.5 million Melina Mercouri Prize to the 2025 European Capital of Culture which brings together the Slovenian and Italian border cities of Nova Gorica and Gorizia. The project, which will officially get under way on 8 February, will receive the prize in March.

The 40th LGBT Film Festival closing ceremony in Ljubljana on Sunday saw the Pink Dragon Award going to the film Asog, a Philippine-Canadian-American co-production directed by Canadian film-maker Sean Devlin. Meanwhile, the audiences chose the Austrian romantic comedy What a Feeling by Kat Rohrer as their favourite feature film.