President Nataša Pirc Musar said Slovenia has not done enough to call on voters to go to EU elections, as she discussed topical issues with secondary school and university students amid the country's 20th anniversary of EU accession. She urged youth to cast their votes because the European Parliament is the only directly elected EU institution.

National Assembly President Urška Klakočar Zupančič shares the view that the anti-graft commission is the body having to say whether provisions on incompatibility of offices were breached in the case of Constitutional Court judge Klemen Jaklič's side work as sole proprietor. She hopes that whoever decides in the matter, will muster enough courage.

Gains by NLB bank, which will report its quarterly results today, and Luka Koper propelled the SBI TOP benchmark on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange 0.23% higher to 1,450.64 points, even as other major issues lost ground. Volumes exceeded EUR 1.7 million.

A contract has been signed to construct a 44-bed unit of the Rakičan Care Home in the nearby Dobrovnik in northeastern Slovenia. Construction work as part of the EUR 5.4 million project is planned to start in autumn and first residents are expected to be accepted in 2026.

Slovenian Gašper Pintar and Tom Livingstone from the UK have made the first ascent of a new 1,600-metre mixed climb up the South Face of Mount Dickey (2,909m) in the Ruth Gorge, Alaska which they named The Great Wall.

The Democrats (SDS) unveiled on Wednesday their EU election platform, which focuses on six priority values, including protection of the European way of life, increased birth rate, and efforts to tackle illegal migration.

Slovenia recorded in February the biggest month-on-month drop in services production among 21 EU member states for which data was available, a 1.9% decline, Eurostat said on Wednesday as it released first estimates. The country lagged behind EU average both on monthly and annual basis despite a year-on-year increase.