Several international journalist organisations condemned Wednesday Prime Minister Janez Janša's tweet that said Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović was "part of #fakenews network". This came after her warning about deteriorating media freedom in Slovenia. The organisations agree with her assessment of the situation.

Interior Minister Aleš Hojs and his Croatian counterpart Davor Božinović discussed strategies to facilitate border crossing between Slovenia and Croatia for tourists, hauliers and daily migrant workers as they met in Portorož on Wednesday.

President Borut Pahor hosted on Wednesday his Swiss counterpart Guy Parmelin for official talks to confirm the friendly relations between the countries. After the talks, the presidents agreed that relations could be further strengthened at both international and bilateral levels, in particular in business, research and science.

Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek has urged increasing the amount of wood Slovenia processes at home, saying this would result in synergies but could not be done overnight or without investment. He announced that the wood industry can count on EUR 67 million from the new EU budget and the recovery and resilience fund.

A total of 255 new cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded in Slovenia on Tuesday as 3,506 PCR tests were performed, for a positivity rate of 7.1%, down slightly compared to the day before, fresh figures published by the government show. The number of persons in hospitals, including in intensive care, continued to drop.

Slovenia's exports in April increased by 55.3% compared to the same month last year, when economic activity was curtailed due to the epidemic. Trade with EU member states and the rest of the world increased and, although the situation is not back to normal yet, trade was also higher compared to April 2019.