President Borut Pahor met his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta in Tirana on Thursday as part of a whistle-stop tour of the region in preparation for the 17 May regional summit in Slovenia. In a renewed call for EU enlargement to the Western Balkans he said EU membership would make country borders less important and cancel out the need to change them.

MPs from all three coalition parties submitted to parliament on Thursday a proposal to dismiss Speaker Igor Zorčič, with the argument that he had joined at the end of March a group of unaffiliated MPs, which is not part of the coalition.

Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković have signed an agreement under which the government and Ljubljana will cooperate on 29 projects in 2020-2023. The deal is in line with the law on the Slovenian capital city. Janković hopes new projects will be added soon, which Koritnik is optimistic about.

Hinko Šolinc, a government official in charge of energy, is worried that due CO2 emission coupon prices will force the closure of Slovenia's coal-fired power station TEŠ much earlier than the currently planned date in the early 2030s, perhaps as early as 2024 or under an optimistic scenario, in 2029.

The European Commission has noted the Slovenian government's duty under law to secure suitable funding for the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) in response to the agency's questions about the fundraising campaign for the STA, calling for swift solutions to unblock the funding and preserve the agency's independence.

Slovenia logged 774 coronavirus cases for Wednesday from almost 4,230 PCR tests for a positivity rate of slightly over 18%, an improvement from Wednesday last week. Three Covid-19 patients died, shows government figures released on Thursday. Online registration was meanwhile launched for residents who want to get a jab.

Prime Minister Janez Janša announced on Twitter on Thursday that all adults under 50 will start to get vaccinated on Monday. "We will have enough vaccine for everyone by summer. Let's be responsible to ourselves and others, get vaccinated and hold out for a few more weeks. It is time for a normal summer," he wrote.

President Borut Pahor said after meeting his Montenegrin counterpart Milo Đukanović on Wednesday that a new momentum needed to be provided for the process of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, as there was a certain standstill. Pahor is on a tour ahead of the Brdo-Brijuni Process summit, to be held in Slovenia on 17 May.