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One of the most influential global media giants, National Geographic, published a list on its website of the top six new cycling and hiking trails that they recommend for 2020.

Slovenian athletes are excellent ambassadors and promotors of the country and the national brand “I feel Slovenia”.

Today, Friday 19 December 2019, marks two years since the UN General Assembly, following an initiative launched by Slovenia, declared 20 May to be World Bee Day.

Last week the online edition of Canadian newspaper The Vancouver Sun, which has more than 1.3 million monthly unique visitors, published an article entitled “Five reasons to visit tiny, perfect Slovenia”.

About 250,000 persons born abroad are living in Slovenia, 38% of whom immigrated in the last ten years

On his first visit to his home country since his appointment, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič met leaders and participated in a round-table discussion entitled The EU and Crisis Management: Between Global Challenges and Domestic Solutions, which was prepared by the Commission Representation in Slovenia in conjunction with the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) and the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia.

Slovenia launched the national test blockchain infrastructure SI-Chain, which will enable testing of existing and new blockchain applications for the public and private sector.

The American business and finance website Business Insider has published the tourist destinations for the coming year, and they include Slovenia.

Slovenia remains committed to the implementation of the arbitration ruling, said Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Šarec in response to the viewpoint of the Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice.

Human Rights Day is celebrated all around the world on 10 December, and this year it is devoted to the efforts of young people for human rights.

On Tuesday, the BBC aired an item about waste processing in Ljubljana.

Prime Minister Marjan Šarec visited Slovenian soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo on Monday and Tuesday.

There is practically no non-governmental organisation in Slovenia that does not include volunteers in its work.

One of the world’s largest international fairs promoting filming locations, FOCUS 2019, was held in London this week.

On 3 December, the anniversary of the birth of poet France Prešeren, Slovenia’s cultural institutions once again opened their doors to the people.

On 3 December 2019, Slovenia’s oldest and largest institution of higher learning – the University of Ljubljana – celebrated its one hundredth birthday.

In taking the PISA literacy test, Slovenian students achieved 507 points on average, which is above the OECD average.

In collaboration with Danish and Chinese colleagues, Slovenian scientists have decoded the genome of the olm, a cave-dwelling animal also known as Proteus anguinus or, more colloquially, as the “human fish”.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, a film by Teona Strugar Mitevska that also involves a Slovenian co-producer, has won the 2019 LUX Film Prize, presented by the European Parliament.

Slovenia’s largest and longest-running publishing event, the Slovenian Book Fair, started at the end of November.