Blue chips on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange plummeted on Monday posting loses from 2.6 to 6.5%, joining the steep downward trend on global stock markets and pushing the SBI TOP benchmark 4.52% lower, below 1,600 points.

The Slovenian national men's volleyball team was knocked out of the Paris Olympic Games on Monday after losing 1:3 to Poland, No. 1 in the world ranking, in the quarterfinals.

Slovenia's registered jobless total was at 44,384 at the end of July, up 2.3% from the previous month but down 6.1% year-on-year. The increase on the monthly basis was mostly the result of a rise in job seekers whose fixed-term employment contracts expired, the Employment Service said on Monday.

Slovenia's Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon expressed concern about the rising tensions in the Middle East in a phone call with Iran's acting Foreign Minister Bagheri Kani, calling for maximum restraint by all actors in the region.