The country is more and more relying on the foreign labour force to alleviate staff shortages, with an increase in workers from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines; measures are also being taken to facilitate recruitment

Podčetrtek Castle in the east of the country has reopened to visitors after extensive renovations that restored it to its former glory after being left to decay for decades; the last major renovation dates back to 1874

A fire has been raging near the village of Borovec, near Kočevska Reka in the south, since Friday evening, very close to the primordial Krokar forest, protected by UNESCO

311 pairs of white storks nested in Slovenia, with 673 young emerging from the nests, a new record since the first annual census of white storks in the country was carried out in 1999

Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogačar won the 111th edition of the Tour de France, the first to have won both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same year since 1998