Positive Slovenia (PS) leader Alenka Bratusek speaks during a news conference after the parliament dismissed Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa's ruling coalition in Ljubljana February 27, 2013. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Exports in Slovenia rose almost 10 percent year-on-year in April, data showed on Friday in a rare sign of economic strength in the euro zone country which is struggling to avert a bailout.
However, bad loans in local banks - the root of the government's problems - inched up in the first four months of the year, and unemployment hit a 20-year high of 11.1 percent in the first quarter.
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