The Interior Ministry will have more money available in the next two years, mostly as a result of deferred investments, the Home Policy Committee heard as it examined the 2025 and 2026 budget documents.

The government expanded Tuesday the 2024-2027 development programmes, a special section of national budget, to include a EUR 37.5 million purchase of two medevac helicopters.

Greenpeace Slovenia activists staged a rally on Lake Bled on Tuesday to draw attention to the unresolved disposal of radioactive waste in Slovenia. They noted the delays in the construction of a repository for low-level and medium-level waste, and the lack of a final solution for storing high-level waste.

Janez Janša, the president of the Democrats (SDS) sees his former MP Anže Logar, who plans to start a new party, as a threat. "This new party wants to chip away at the SDS's support," he said. He also finds the timing suspicious.

The EU ministers in charge of energy, including Slovenia's Bojan Kumer, discussed at Tuesday's meeting in Luxembourg the recommendations on the future competitiveness of the European economy in energy. Slovenia welcomes the recommendations, the Environment, Climate and Energy Ministry, quoted Kumer as saying.

The parliamentary Economy Committee examined on Tuesday the Economy Ministry's budgets for 2025 and 2026. While government officials said there is enough money to promote competitiveness and development, opposition MPs worried that the revenue projections may be overly optimistic.

President Nataša Pirc Musar visited on Tuesday the Slavia Friulana region in Italy to meet with representatives of the local Slovenian community and the mayors of 18 municipalities populated by Slovenians. She addressed the ceremony for the 40th anniversary of a local bilingual school to note the importance of preserving the Slovenian language.