At the EU summit in Brussels, which was the first for Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, Slovenia pushed for EU candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina. "The most important thing is that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina receive a positive signal from Europe and remain hopeful. Just as we have given hope and a European perspective to Ukraine, we must do the same in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which also found itself at war 20 years ago and where hope has been has been slowly running out," the Prime Minister said.
Statehood Day, which will be celebrated on Saturday, commemorates the events of 31 years ago, when on 25 June 1991, after several years of struggle, the then Slovenian Assembly adopted the key documents for Slovenia's independence, namely the Basic Constitutional Charter on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Slovenia, the constitutional act for its implementation, and the Declaration of Independence.
After a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rich programmes of summer events began in several towns across Slovenia, including the capital. This year's jubilee Festival Ljubljana, one of the oldest international festivals, marks its 70th anniversary. With its carefully selected and genre-diverse programme, the festival makes an important contribution every year to the capital’s roster of cultural events. This year's Kresnik Prize, the award for the best Slovenian novel of the year, goes to Roman Rozina.
