Editor’s Note
Hello, Internationalis Slovenia calling.
This week, we recommend reading about the Artemida Leadership Award winner (2023), World Economic Forum YGL (2024), and Canada’s Life Sciences Top 20 Under 40 honouree (2024), Eva McLellan, who is shaping the future of medicine as a global executive and architect of the new health economy.
https://theinternational.si/leading-the-change-international-collaboration/
Time flies, and soon it is the time for The Event of the Year – Weekend Media Festival, which has been bringing together the media and marketing industry for 18 years, and for the last few years, also various other sectors.
Book the third weekend of September for Rovinj and join the Weekend of all Weekends!
https://theinternational.si/weekend-of-all-weekends/
The 73rd Ljubljana Festival is in full swing, and they bring us, among other fantastic performers, an orchestra with a rapidly growing reputation. The Guiyang Symphony has broken new ground in China since its establishment in 2009. As the first and only privately funded and endowed symphony orchestra, it is a pioneer and forerunner in changing the classical music landscape of China.
Read more on
https://theinternational.si/guiyang-symphony-orchestra-at-the-ljubljana-festival-on-august-25th/
Thoughts:
I hear friends, and many tourists crawling the streets of Ljubljana these days, complain about the high prices of ice cream in Slovenia.
Did you know that there is a World Ice Cream Day? Yes, according to the Republic of Slovenia Statistical Office, SURS, it is celebrated on the third Sunday in July, which this year fell on the 20th of July.
Did you also know that ice cream in Slovenia is over 7% more expensive? Last year, the average retail price of a litre of ice cream in Slovenia was EUR 4.07, while a portion of ice cream with cream cost EUR 6.54. From last year to this June, the price of ice cream went up by 7.2%. The reason? Most ingredients for homemade ice cream are also more expensive, so in June this year, the prices of most ingredients for homemade ice cream increased year-on-year: chocolate by 24.0%, fresh or chilled fruit by 12.6%, milk by 2.5% and yoghurt by 1.8%. The year before last, 60 enterprises in Slovenia were engaged in ice cream production, which is the highest number since 2008. The number of such enterprises was the lowest in 2011 (37).
Source: Republic of Slovenia, Statistical Office, SURS
Words of the week: “Contradictio in adjecto” – “Kind hypocrisy”
According to the data of the World Food Programme, half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine, while the rest are enduring emergency levels of hunger.
Looking at the state of the world today… How did we end up here?
