Slovenia legalizes LGBTQ marriage and adoptions
The move makes Slovenia the first country in Eastern Europe to ensure equal rights for same-sex couples.
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Slovenia set to be the first former communist country with marriage equality
Slovenia’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Balkan nation’s ban on LGBTQ marriage equality and adoption is “inadmissible discrimination against same-sex couples.”
Slovenia defines sex without consent as rape
Coercion, the use or threat of force, or the inability to defend oneself will no longer be the only conditions for a crime to be considered rape after the Slovenian parliament passed amendments to the penal code on June 5.
Slovenia becomes first European country to declare end of COVID-19 epidemic
Despite the announcement, many measures implemented to slow the virus from spreading will remain. Some of those restrictions will continue through the end of the month.
Five countries sign declaration to create world’s first five-nation protected area on “Europe’s Amazon”
In March 2011, environment ministers from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovenia gathered in Gödöllő, Hungary, and signed a declaration to protect a 700-kilometer corridor of wild rivers known as “Europe’s Amazon.” The agreement laid the groundwork for what became, a decade later, the world’s first UNESCO five-country biosphere reserve — a rare instance of rivers drawing nations together.
Stephen I crowned king, launching the Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was born on Christmas Day in the year 1000, when a young ruler named Stephen I was crowned at Esztergom. With a crown sent by Pope Sylvester II, he pulled a pagan principality into Catholic Europe — founding a state that would endure, in shifting forms, for nearly a thousand years.