A solar power plant will be built on the site of the former coal mine Trbovlje-Hrastnik; with a capacity of 1.5MW, it will be among the largest in the country; work will start soon, depending on weather conditions

Bled, a Slovenian tourist destination well known for turquoise-water lake overlooked by a medieval castle, has achieved European certification thanks to an excellent waste recycling system despite welcoming a great number of tourists each summer

The National Assembly unanimously approved a bill that will make Slovenian-language operating systems mandatory for manufacturers selling their consumer electronic devices in the country

Residents of the Obrežje area, where the government plans to open a branch of the center for asylum seekers, staged another protest against the project involving some 1.000 citizens

The parliamentary groups of the coalition Movement for Freedom and Social Democratsand the opposition Democrats and New Slovenia have filed in parliamentary procedure a motion to hold a referendum on the expansion of nuclear energy