Commenting on police filing a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Robert Golob, Mladina says on Friday that Golob was right to tell former Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar that police needed to be purged of Janšists.

Nearly 100 children enrolled in four bilingual kindergartens from the Porabje region in Hungary, home to the Slovenian minority there, and a kindergarten in northeastern Slovenia met in a Hungarian village on Thursday to promote learning Slovenian and strengthen the ties between the homeland and minority.

The Nuclear Safety Administration has denied the claims by Greenpeace Slovenia that the validity of the rules on handling radioactive waste and spent fuel has expired, saying that currently applied are the rules that entered into force in August 2021.

The government has relieved Marjan Pintar of duties as state secretary at the Health Ministry after he resigned on 30 September due to ill health. Pintar will now retire, the government said after its session on Thursday. The other two state secretaries at the ministry are Denis Kordež and Iztok Kos.

Some 264,000 people, or 12.7% of Slovenia's entire population, lived beneath the poverty line last year, 0.6 points higher than the year before. Nevertheless, this is still among the lowest at-risk-of-poverty rates in the EU.

A delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has concluded a ten-day visit to Slovenia with a preliminary report that highlights continuing issues with overcrowding and staff shortages in the country's prisons.

A new multi-purpose centre featuring a kindergarten was inaugurated in Dobruška Vas, a Roma village in the southeastern municipality of Škocjan, after the original centre was burnt down in March. The municipality decided to set up a new centre "primarily to help children", Mayor Jože Kapler said on Thursday.