Slovenes outscore most Europeans on science, yet no other EU country is as quick to call scientists narrow-minded. At a debate in Ljubljana, a cement maker and a bank described how trust is earned back.

Slovenia's first AI Week takes over Ljubljana in early November. Kaja Kovič, who conceived it, wants people to try the future rather than have it explained to them.

Foreign companies own €24bn worth of Slovenian business, much of it from Austria and Switzerland. The agency that courts investors says the newest interest is coming from Asia.

Intereuropa will handle every vehicle, consignment and piece of equipment going into Expo 2027 in Belgrade, and coming out again.

NLB is preparing to open a representative office in Albania and would consider an acquisition if a bank came up for sale, the president of its management board told a business forum in Celje.

Albania spent €349.3 million on wood imports last year. Slovenia has 2.2 million cubic metres of approved timber going uncut. It supplies €884,000.

Slovenia's second city is trying to turn geography into an economic model.

Lightly indebted energy companies and willing banks are meeting a scarcer commodity. Projects far enough along to be financed.

Slovenia recycles 59.8 per cent of its municipal waste, yet only 10.1 per cent of the material entering its economy comes from recovered sources. The gap is not a Slovene anomaly but a European one, and it has stopped being an environmental question.

For decades, millions kept their homelands afloat by sending money back. Now they're returning with something more powerful: investment, influence, and the means to build lasting economic transformation.

While Central Europe wrestled with German industrial slowdown, Western Balkan companies quietly pushed ahead with diversified exports, domestic consumption and regional stamina.

With 440 kilometres of Adriatic coastline, Albania is finally claiming its place on the Mediterranean shipping map.

Dr Mojmir Mrak on geopolitical shifts, EU competitiveness, and what Slovenia and the Western Balkans must do to survive a turbulent new era.

The EU wants a sevenfold increase in biomethane by 2030 to replace Russian gas. It has the technology and the feedstock. What it lacks is the regulatory architecture to connect them.