STA, 16 June 2018 - Hundreds of members of the Slovenian diaspora from a dozen countries converged on Brežice on Saturday for the eighth annual Welcome Home, a gathering that is as much a cultural event as it is an opportunity for emigrants to reconnect with their roots. 

STA, 16 June 2018 - Archbishop of Ljubljana Stanislav Zore spoke out against pro-choice rights in an address to the annual gathering of the sick, the disabled and elderly at Brezje, Slovenia's main pilgrimage shrine, on Saturday. 

The big pink confection over time. 

STA, 15 June 2018 - Cherry picking seems to be a popular activity for Slovenians these days and the number of people falling off cherry trees is already twice as high as in the whole of last year. The number of cherry trees in intensive orchards has almost tripled in the last fifteen years. 

Heat up, cool off, chill out. 

STA, 14 June 2018 - The at-risk-of-poverty rate in Slovenia decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 13.3% in 2017, show data released by the Statistics Office on Thursday. The average annual net disposable household income increased by EUR 701 over the previous year to EUR 22,256 and the Gini coefficient decreased by 0.7 points to 23.7. 

STA, 13 June 2018 - Half of adult Slovenians do not eat healthy and more than half are overweight, according to the fifth national study on health-related habits, which was carried out by the National Institute of Public Health in 2016. 

STA, 13 June 2018 - The OECD has proposed that Slovenia undertake a comprehensive tax reform in order to strengthen its resilience in the face of mounting demographic challenges. The centrepiece of the proposal is a reduction of the tax wedge offset with higher income tax and an expansion of the tax base.