Foreign Minister Anže Logar and Governor of Carinthia Peter Kaiser met in Austria's Klagenfurt on Friday to discuss a number of topics, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the situation of the Slovenian minority. They also discussed the priorities of Slovenia's upcoming EU presidency and future cooperation projects.

The Constitutional Court has ruled the legislative amendments that ban most shops from being open on Sundays is not in contravention of the constitution as claimed by several retail companies.

MPs will vote on an impeachment motion against Prime Minister Janez Janša at a parliamentary session starting on Monday, 17 May, the college of deputy leaders decided today. The motion had been filed by the opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ), Social Democrats (SD), Left and the Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB).

Slovenia reported 606 coronavirus infections for Thursday, a drop of 36% on the same day a week ago, to push the 7-day average down further to below 700, at 680. Three Covid-19 patients died.

Uroš Seljak, a Slovenian physicist, cosmologist and astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley is among the recipients of this year's Gruber Prize in Cosmology, awarded by Yale University. It comes for his significant contribution in developing methods of key importance for studying the creation of the universe.