Slovenia

A date has been set for presidential elections, 23 October, to choose its fifth president, with a potential runoff between two candidates that could be set for 13 November

Data from the Bureau of Statistics show that Slovenia's inflation rate reached a 24-year high of 10,4%, driven by rising prices of oil products, food and electricity

The country has urged member states to send a strong political signal to the Western Balkans; EU leaders will meet for a summit between 23 and 24 June which includes the topic of enlargement

Democrats, Parliament's largest opposition party, have proposed that drug tests be mandatory for public office holders, arguing it is "in the public interest to know whether politicians are taking prohibited drugs"

The funeral of Boris Pahor, one of the most relevant voices of the deportation to Nazi concentration camps and of discriminations against Slovenian minority during Italian fascism, will be held tomorrow in Trieste, Italy

After the Slovenian Foreign Ministry reduced the staff of the Russian embassy in Ljubljana from 41 to 8 in early April, Russia formally asked Slovenia to reduce the staff of its embassy in Moscow

The central bank intervenes in the property market, with loan requirements for those buying property to be relaxed from July with a series of changes and exemptions in a move intended to boost demand for loans

Slovenian defence spending to rise to almost €1 billion by 2026, with the programme set to advance the development and modernisation of priority capabilities and the restructuring of the armed forces and defence system

The municipality of Hrastnik, part of a coal-mining region undergoing economic transformation, is now home to Prapretno, the country's largest solar power plant

Alojz Kralj, the last remaining member of the clandestine anti-fascist organisation TIGR, has died at the age of 101, said TIGR Primorska, an association promoting anti-fascist values