Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts. The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational centre offering secondary and tertiary educational programmes in food science, and their mentors. At this year's competition, students had to prepare a savoury breakfast with at least one vegetable. Contestants also had to follow strict nutritional value rules. The students from BIC Ljubljana created a ..read more

The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the tünka cured meats. But the people of Prlekija, especially around the town of Ljutomer, are as equally proud of their horses, the thoroughbred Ljutomer Trotters, developed over generations by hardworking farmers who needed fast horses to transport their wine to Venice and Vienna, among other places ..read more

Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments." "We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver to you," the company said in a statement issued on 30 April. Glovo will perform its services normally until 10 May at 10pm. Its customer support team will be active until the end of May. The company entered the Slovenian market in 2021 when it took over the local food delivery company Ehrana. Glovo, owned by the German pub ..read more

Celje have won their second ever championship title in the Slovenian premiere football league a full three rounds before the end of competition. They have been the dominant side since the early stages of the season and sealed the deal by defeating reigning champions Olimpija 1:0 on 28 April. "Congratulations to the players, who played heroically throughout the season. There were a few ups and down, but nothing out of the ordinary. I believe we'll get even stronger," coach Damir Krznar said. Celje have been ascendant for several years thanks to foreign investments brought in by club president V ..read more

The Kočevje chemical company Melamin returned to profit in 2023 after posting its first loss in decades the year before largely owing a deadly explosion in May 2022. The company has restored the bulk of its production capacities. The company reported nearly €1.1 million in profit for 2023, bouncing back from a €1.8 million loss in 2022. Sales revenue was nevertheless down 24% to €45.4 million. Melamin said its business was affected by the war in Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East and cargo transport difficulties. Prices of key raw materials also had a significant impact. The plant was t ..read more

The Slovenian Alpine Association, the country's largest brewery and other partners have teamed up to collect waste aluminium cans and turn them into bivouac shelters in the mountains. The cans will be collected for a year in dedicated yellow bins at 16 locations around the country as part of a project called Bivouacs for White Peaks. The plan is to construct three such shelters. They will need roughly 200,000 cans or 1,000 kilos of aluminium, Urban Kramberger from the brewer Laško Union estimated at the project's launch on 22 April. The cans will be processed into aluminium sheets, and the con ..read more

Austria is the favourite career destination for Slovenians, while Slovenia is the most desired job destination for workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, a survey by employment portal Mojedelo.com and the Boston Consulting Group has shown. The survey, conducted among 150,000 respondents from 188 countries, including 772 Slovenians, showed that 25% of respondents would be willing to work abroad, but the share among Slovenians is only 6%. If only young people from Slovenia are considered, 11% would move abroad. Among the Slovenians surveyed, students (18%) are the most eager to work abroad ..read more

Slovenia observes the Day of Uprising Against Occupation on 27 April, a holiday honouring the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation during the Second World War. The WWII resistance was spearheaded by the Liberation Front, an organisation founded in Ljubljana on 26 April 1941, 20 days after the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia was attacked by the Axis Powers. However, for about two decades after the war it was believed that the meeting at which the Liberation Front was established took place on 27 April and what was celebrated as the Day of the Liberation Front before Slovenia's breaking awa ..read more

Kanin, Slovenia's only true high-altitude ski resort, which was closed this winter after failing to extend its cable car permit, is reportedly eyed by a Serbian investor linked to the Jahorina resort in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The newspaper Delo reported on 26 April that government officials had been contacted on behalf of the Serbian company Trgovinsko preduzeće Ri-komerc Beograd by former Slovenian ski champion Bojan Križaj. The paper quotes the Infrastructure Ministry as saying that Ri-komerc is also interested in investing in hospitality, golf courses, and an airport. Located on the border wit ..read more

With the date of the June elections to the European Parliament approaching fast, all of Slovenia's major parties have now presented their candidates. Like the opposition, who unveiled their candidate lists a while ago, ruling coalition parties are betting on tried-and-tested names. Half of Slovenia's incumbent eight members of the European Parliament (MEP) are affiliated with the ruling centre-left coalition, and the other half come from the two opposition parties and a fellow conservative party that is no longer represented in the national legislature. In the next European Parliament, Sloveni ..read more