Slovenia has earned a new reproof for the slow uptake of EU funds as the country's member of the European Court of Auditors reported that by the end of 2018 the country had only used 24.2% of the funding available for the period between 2014 and 2020.

Slovenia is reluctant to support the latest agreement on migration reached by the EU coalition of the willing four countries in Malta, Interior Minister Boštjan Poklukar said on Tuesday while at the EU Home Affairs Council session on EU migration policy.

Slovenia's main industrial relations forum will be back in session next week, after Prime Minister Marjan Šarec met with employers and trade unions on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after they suspended social dialogue, protesting that bills were being filed into parliamentary procedure without having been discussed by the forum.