The government adopted on Thursday a bill on the digitalisation of healthcare, the first in a planned health reform package. Health Minister Danijel Bešič Loredan said it introduces digital transparency and is a prerequisite for the reform.

The government has dismissed its five representatives on the nine-strong council of the Ljubljana Psychiatric Clinic and appointed new members. Health Minister Danijel Bešič Loredan also urged the director general to resign, which Bojan Zalar is willing to do only if external reviews show that he has made "professional errors".

President Nataša Pirc Musar will pay visits to North Macedonia and Serbia next week, with bilateral relations, the situation in the Western Balkans and the EU accession prospects of the region topping the agenda of talks with the countries' presidents and other senior representatives.

The contractual fine that Slovenia has to pay for pulling out of the EUR 281 million agreement on the purchase of 45 Boxer armoured personnel carriers from the OCCAR programme amounts to EUR 4.15 million, Defence Minister Marjan Šarec said on Thursday. But he stressed the country would save EUR 65 million.

The state-run SID Bank signed a EUR 42 million loan guarantee agreement with the European Investment Fund (EIF) on Thursday under which it will offer micro, small and medium-sized businesses EUR 72 million in favourable loans for their green and digital transformation.

The oldest recipe for a pastry known as the Ljubljana Štrukelj, which first appeared in the first original Slovenian cook book from 1868, has been revived and modernised. The cake is made of dough, orange filling, vanilla, jam and almonds, and is a variant of an Austro-Hungarian cake.