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STA, 11 September 2018 - President Borut Pahor called for political stability and a social pact in Slovenia, as he opened the 51st International Trade Fair in Celje on Tuesday, along with some other guests, including Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajić.
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STA, 11 September 2018 - The future of tourism, Tourism 4.0, will be created using high-performing computers, believes Tomi Ilijaš, the founder and CEO of Arctur, a leading high performance computer provider in Central and Eastern Europe. The tourism of the future must be a driving force of positive change, panellists at the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF) agreed on Tuesday.
STA, 11 September 2018 - Employers in Slovenia are quite optimistic about hiring in the final quarter of the year, with as many as 20% of them planning to increase their staff. The prospects for hiring in Slovenia are thus among the most promising in the region and the world, the latest survey by temping agency Manpower shows.
STA- NLB, Slovenia's largest bank, saw group net profit drop by 11% to EUR 104.8m in the first six months of the year. The decline is a result of significantly lower proceeds from the release of impairments and provisions, the bank said on Friday.
STA, 7 September 2018 - Slovenia's exports in July were up 16.3% year-on-year to EUR 2.7bn, while imports were up 15.2% to EUR 2.6bn. In the first seven months of the year, both exports and imports increased by 11.6% compared to the same period last year, the Statistics Office said on Friday.
STA, 6 September 2018 - Mercator Group has more than doubled its operating profit in the first half of the year to EUR 16.9m, while its net profit reached EUR 1.5m, a significant improvement over the EUR 4.6m loss the group generated in the same period last year.
STA, 5 September - The total number of people registered as unemployed with Slovenia's Employment Service has dropped again, to 75,920 at the end of August, 0.2% fewer than a month before and 9.4% fewer year-on-year.
STA, 3 September 2018 - There were a total of 8,053 foreign-owned non-financial companies in Slovenia in 2016, which generated 27.3% of the total added value in the sector, up a percentage point compared to the year before, the Statistics Office reported on Monday.
STA, 3 September 2018 - The average increase in consumer prices in Slovenia between 2000 and 2017 was just below 64%, according to a report from Eurostat released on Monday. In this respect, Slovenia trails only six countries in the EU.
STA, 3 September 2018 - The new coalition's plans over capital gains tax have fuelled an acrimonious row in Slovenia after an MP for the Left (Levica) threatened businessmen with nationalisation. In return, these urged response from officials.
