Foreign Minister Miro Cerar, speaking after an EU ministerial in Brussels on Monday, said the EU should respond to positive change in the Western Balkans with very concrete acts or else it risked losing the region geo-strategically.

Three right-leaning opposition parties are planning to impeach Prime Minister Marjan Šarec, the Democratic Party (SDS) confirmed for the STA on Monday. The motion is to be filed in parliament and presented to the public tomorrow.

The parliamentary Labour Committee adopted on Monday amendments to a bill that raises the minimum wage, stipulating a slower rise than envisaged in the original proposal. Third reading of the bill is scheduled for Thursday.

Slovenia was among more than 150 UN member countries that endorsed the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at an inter-governmental conference in Marrakesh on Monday.

Miro Cerar is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Friday in what is the first visit by of a Slovenian foreign minister to the State Department since 2010.

Slovenia exported EUR 2.88bn worth of goods in October, 10.5% more than in the same month a year ago. Merchandise imports rose by 19.2% to EUR 2.94bn, creating a trade deficit of EUR 59.3m.

Slovenia will join observation of Human Rights Day with a number of events on Monday, including by honouring Eleanor Roosevelt, who was instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document adopted in Paris 70 years ago, to the day.