Four foreign-owned companies were honoured as the annual FDI awards were handed out on Thursday. Henkel Maribor won in the category for best large company, Avantpack in the SME segment, Ekolat for its impact on the economy, and Lumentum in the smart company segment.

A package of changes to six tax-related laws, including the Income Tax Act, cleared the first hurdle in the National Assembly on Thursday as MPs confirmed the bills in a partisan vote.

Mahle Electric Drives Slovenija, a Šempeter pri Gorici-based company which is part of the German group Mahle, plans to lay off 340 workers in 2025 due to optimisation and another 270 after it moves parts of its production to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Hungary.

A day after quitting the Democrats (SDS), MP Anže Logar, foreign minister in the Janez Janša government in 2020-2022, announced on Thursday that he will found his own party be the end of the year. He will leave the SDS deputy group before the next plenary session to act as an independent MP until founding his party.

Several environmental groups and other non-governmental organisations and experts gathered in front of the parliament building on Thursday to urge MPs inside to vote down the proposal for a consultative referendum on a new unit at the Krško nuclear power station, which they see as a manipulation.

The budgets for 2025 and 2026 continue to follow the priorities of the government, including healthcare, knowledge, innovation, economy, security and resilience, Prime Minister Robert Golob said as he presented the budget documents to the National Assembly on Thursday.

President Nataša Pirc Musar will take part in a meeting of heads of state of the Arraiolos Group in Krakow, Poland, on Thursday and Friday. The event will be dedicated to the issues of European security, but the participants will also discuss EU-US cooperation, the bloc's enlargement and efforts to guarantee its energy security.