IMAD, the government's macroeconomic forecaster, has sharply downgraded the GDP growth forecast for this year. It expects the economy to grow at a pace of only 1.5%, down from its spring forecast of 2.4%. For next year it reduced the forecast by just 0.1 points, to 2.4%.

IMAD, the government's macroeconomic forecaster, has sharply downgraded the GDP growth forecast for this year. It expects the economy to grow at a pace of only 1.5%, down from its spring forecast of 2.4%. For next year it reduced the forecast by just 0.1 points, to 2.4%.

The largest opposition party, the Democrats (SDS), has called on Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič to resign after the Court of Audit found several irregularities in last year's budget closing account. The report found non-transparent use of public funds and operations going against the law, SDS MP Rado Gladek said on Thursday.

Slovenia will take in eight to ten wounded children from Gaza for health and psychosocial rehabilitation as part of a project between the Foreign Ministry and the Catholic charity Caritas Slovenia, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

The Austria-based Bia Separations, former majority owner of what is now Sartorius Bia Separations, is suing its former subsidiary for nearly EUR 83 million, an amount it believes to have been swindled out of when the Ajdovščina-based company was sold to Sartorius in 2020.