Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Monday, 22 October 2018, as prepared by the STA: 

SILA – the Slovenian International Ladies Association, although sila in Slovene means “force” – started in 1993, before some of its current members were born, and has changed quite a lot since the days when mobile phones were the size of bricks and the country was only two years old. Some things, however, have stayed the same, and that’s the group’s two main aims: to provide a place where non-Slovene women can find support, companionship, adventure and get to know their new home better, as well as good work in the country. 

The biggest event of the week comes next Sunday, the 28^th, with the Ljubljana Marathon. Starting in the morning with the 10k race, this takes over Kongresni trg and Slovenska cesta, and is a colourful and noisy affair that will cause some detours on the road. Music at the starting line is provided by Stroj Machine. There will also be some related events on Saturday.

The Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and ŠKUC are co-hosting an international conference on LGBTQ+ literature in Eastern Europe on 25 and 26 October 2018, which will examine, among other issues, the following questions:

STA, 19 October 2018 - The Slovenian police force will be supplied in the coming days with its first 20 Tasers, all of which will be equipped with a camera. Following a training programme, the most exposed police units are expected to start using them next year. The police will moreover get 60 body cameras, Dnevnik reported on Friday. 

The covers and editorials from weeklies of the Left and Right for the work-week ending Friday, October 19, 2018. 

STA, 18 October 2018 - Prime Minister Marjan Šarec met French President Emmanuel Macron for about half-an-hour long bilateral meeting in Brussels on Thursday which focused on cooperation at the EU level and the fight against populism. 

STA, 18 October 2018 - The Human Rights Ombudsman has found that the Slovenian police, administrative units and courts did not breach regulations governing bilinguality, which apply in areas where the Hungarian and Italian minorities live. Still, Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer said this did not mean irregularities were not taking place. 

It’s a story we’ve told before, but it remains, to our mind, a small but pretty good one, an all too human of an easy mistake followed by mild and temporary suffering, the kind of thing most people have done once or twice in their lives – getting off at the wrong stop and spending the night on the streets.