The Slovenian police has been led by acting police commissioner for almost three months now and there is no call for applications yet for a full-fledged commissioner, the newspaper Večer says on Tuesday, noting that it seems that the job criteria will be changed first.

The opposition Democratic Party (SDS) enjoys the strongest support among parties, at 23.1%, up 2 points from March, while the ruling Freedom Movement is second with 12.5%, down 3.2 points, show the newspaper Delo's latest poll, published on Monday. 50.5% of those polled rated the government's work as negative and 19.6% as positive.

Dejan Židan, a state secretary at the Economy Ministry, stressed the importance of a prudent and restrained EU response to the tariffs imposed by the US, as he attended a meeting of EU trade ministers in Luxembourg on Monday.

A group of MEPs for the European People's Party (EPP) was on a fact-finding mission in Slovenia on Monday, with its head expressing disappointment with the non-responsiveness of the National Assembly president and the ruling coalition. "We are surprised by the lack of interest," MEP Tomas Tobe of Sweden told the press as the visit concluded.

Visiting Benin on behalf of EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon held talks with the country's top officials and representatives of civil society on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said. Benin is an extremely important partner to the EU in West Africa, Fajon said.

One of the two patients from North Macedonia treated at the UKC Ljubljana hospital for severe burns after the nightclub fire in Kočani has been released from hospital, the Macedonian press agency Mia reported on Monday. According to unofficial information obtained by the STA, the patient's condition improved and he was able to return home.

The Slovenian children's magazine Ciciban is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. For this occasion publishing house Mladinska Knjiga presented on Monday an anthology of poems, stories and comic strips created by authors and illustrators who worked or are still working for the Ciciban and Cicido magazines.