The parliamentary Finance Committee endorsed on Friday the budget bills for 2020 and 2021, but the opposition successfully pushed through several amendments that may turn into a headache for the minority government when it faces the first major vote in parliament next week after losing the support of the Left.

Supreme State Prosecutor Zvonko Fišer reported Democrat (SDS) MP Žan Mahnič for defamation over the MP's statement that likened the Constitutional Court to mafia. Fišer told the STA today that "to say 'mafia protects mafia' is defamatory and nothing to be played with."

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) expects the central bank's restrictions on consumer loans to reduce Slovenia's nominal economic growth by about EUR 90 million a year.

The Slovenian energy group Petrol posted a net profit of EUR 80.1 million in the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 16% from the same period of 2018, as sales rose by 10% to EUR 4.19 billion.