Slovenia

With yesterday's end of the Slovenian semester of EU Council Presidency, analysts have underlined how there have been poor results on the most important decisions, including the EU enlargement to the Western Balkans

The country had a gross external debt of €51,2 billion at the end of October, the equivalent of 109% of GDP at current prices

The Slovenian Olympic Committee has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the need to preserve glaciers: a piece of the Mount Triglav glacier will be displayed in China during the Winter Olympics to warn of the impact of global warming on the Alps

A collection of cultural and natural heritage, folk tales, stories and traditions has been presented at the Cankarjev Dom cultural centre in Ljubljana and will be part of the Google Arts & Culture portal

Ski jumpers Ema Klinec and Urša Bogataj secured their first double victory in the individual World Cup in Nizhny Tagil, Russia

The police force has received its first hybrid patrol vehicles

The modernisation of a 26-kilometre railway section between Zidani Most and Celje in eastern Slovenia has been declared complete; the project cost 230 million euro, which is about 50 million euro less than the initial cost estimate

A violence-awareness haunted house has been set up in Ljubljana's city square and will remain open until today; visitors can experience first-hand the fear that victims of violence are constantly confronted with

Workplace stress levels measured in the country are among the highest in Europe

Slovenian freediver Alenka Artnik has set a new world record in the double fin discipline at a competition in Turkey; in July she had set a new world record in the constant weight discipline at 122m

Last year, the average person threw away 68kg of food, 1kg more than in 2019, of which 40% was still edible; households and the food trade generated more food waste, while food production and the catering and food service industries generated less

An exhibition of works by Zoran Mušič, the most internationally recognised artist of Slovenian origin, has opened at the Maribor Art Gallery

Fish catches in 2020, exceeding 155 tonnes, increased for the first time in five years, registering an increase of 29% on 2019