Public Administration Minister Boris Koprivnikar has offered to resign as the chief negotiator for the government in the talks with public sector trade unions, which have staged several strikes recently. He asked Prime Minister Miro Cerar to replace him on Friday, after the unions rejected the government's most recent pay rise proposal.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay a working visit to the country on Wednesday to meet Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec and President Borut Pahor, the Slovenian Foreign Ministry has said.
By not respecting the arbitration ruling on the border with Slovenia, Croatia is sending "an extremely negative signal" to the Western Balkans, Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec told the STA on Friday. He believes Croatia is the main problem when it comes to border issues in the region.
The Slovenian men's hockey team suffered a crushing defeat of 2:8 at the hands of the Olympic athletes of Russia in PyeongChang on Friday. Running the show throughout the match, Russians scored a staggering four goals in the second period.
Slovenia's BoĊĦtjan Kline finished the men's super giant slalom at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang tenth, 0.92 of a second behind the winner, Austria's Matthias Mayer.
President Borut Pahor will begin a four-day visit to South Korea on Saturday, as part of which he will visit the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang and meet the country's top officials in Seoul. This will be the first official visit by a Slovenian president to this Asian country.