Slovenia's only nuclear power plant has obtained an environmental permit, a prerequisite for extending its lifespan by 20 years, until 2043; the permit was issued by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning

Slovenian researcher and chip innovator Teja Potočnik, founder and CEO of UK-based startup Nanomation, is one of ten innovators selected from 450 candidates to receive the European Patent Office's (EPO) Young Inventors Prize this June

The Ingeborg Bachmann Dome, an installation dedicated to the Austrian writer and poet, has been inaugurated in Nova Gorica as part of the first cross-border European Capital of Culture program until the end of autumn

Zoran Mušič (1909-2005), an internationally acclaimed modernist painter and printmaker, will be honoured with a series of exhibitions in Slovenia and Italy as Nova Gorica and Gorizia have come together as the first cross-border European Capital of Culture

An ideologically divisive election campaign has been proposed after the largest party collected signatures for a referendum that would grant special pension allowances to prize-awarded artists, providing an extra income to a specific cultural elite