2018 in Slovenia
Events in the year 2018 in Slovenia.
Incumbents
Events
- March 14 - Prime Minister Miro Cerar announces his resignation following complications with planning the upgrade of the Divača–Koper Railway, one of the key infrastructural projects of his government.
- May 13 - national referendum on the Divača–Koper Railway upgrade is repeated, but the new referendum again doesn't reach the prescribed quorum.
- May 24 - The Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the ban of all forms of ritual slaughter, stating that 'the Constitution did not allow easily preventable suffering to be inflicted on animals without a justified cause', and that this provision did 'not disproportionally interfere' with religious freedom.
- June 3 - Slovenian Democratic Party led by Janez Janša wins the majority in the snap parliamentary election.
- September 7 - Aljaž Tower, a symbol of Slovenia, is removed from the summit of Triglav for the first time in 123 years and transported to Ljubljana for repairs.
- September 13 - new government under premier Marjan Šarec is formed after Janez Janša fails to secure a coalition, the first minority government in the history of Slovenia.
- September 15 - after Let's Clean Slovenia 2012, a nation-wide volunteer clean-up effort is again organized by the Ecologists Without Borders society.
Deaths
- February 26 – Veljko Rus, sociologist.
- March 21– Dejan Bravničar, violinist
- April 22 – Demeter Bitenc, actor
- June 8 – Janko Pleterski, historian, politician and diplomat.
- June 25 - Štefka Drolc, actress
- August 24 - Ciril Zlobec, writer, journalist and politician.
- September 13 - Ivo Petrić, composer
- October 16 - Lidija Sotlar, ballerina and teacher.