The workers at the Koper-based car part supplier Cimos will hold a strike on Thursday as the management is paving way to move production from Slovenia, Dnevnik writes on Wednesday, adding that the plants in Senožeče and Vuzenica have been sold with the profit to go towards paying off debt.

Prime Minister Robert Golob has complete trust in Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič, the prime minister's office told the STA on Wednesday after the opposition Democrats (SDS) said they would file a motion to oust the minister on Tuesday. Golob sees the ouster motion as an opportunity for Boštjančič to present his achievements.

The parliamentary Defence Committee approved on Wednesday the changes to the Critical Infrastructure Act which transpose into Slovenia's legislation an EU directive to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure. The amendments aim to increase the number of critical infrastructure sectors.

Culture Minister Asta Vrečko met representatives of cultural organisations of the Slovenian ethnic minority in the Austrian province of Carinthia on Wednesday to examine ways how the ministry could help the community financially and with systemic solutions.

A proposal introducing a ban on the public display of Nazi, Fascist symbols received the green light at committee level in parliament on Wednesday. While the originally proposed fine was lowered from up to EUR 2,500 to between EUR 500 and EUR 1,000, the opposition failed to push through a proposal to expand the list with Communism.

The SBI TOP index of blue chips on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange dropped 0.35% to 1,629.32 points on Wednesday, with the issue of the energy company Petrol notably losing 2.6%. Total volumes reached EUR 2.8 million with the drug maker Krka (0.37%) accounting for more than half of the turnover.

Slovenia is opposed to the plan for the centralisation of European cohesion policy on the model of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, said Minister for Cohesion and Regional Development Aleksander Jevšek at a cohesion policy 2028-2034 event, adding that other "friends of cohesion" felt the same.