International relations professor Zlatko Šabič has told the STA as he commented on the foreign policy segment of the draft coalition agreement document that there are many good things in the document. However, time will tell how much of what has been written for international relations or foreign policy is a wish list and what is reality.

Slovenian President Borut Pahor and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani hailed the good bilateral relations and expressed the hope that Qatari investors will find interest to invest in Slovenia as they met in Ljubljana on Monday, the first day of the emir's official visit to Slovenia.

Slovenia's economy expanded at an annual nominal rate of 9.8% in the first quarter of this year driven by household spending and capital expenditure. The seasonally adjusted rate was 9.6%. At the quarterly level GDP was up by 0.8%, a significant slowdown compared to the 5.3% recorded in the previous quarter, the Statistics Office said on Monday.

The European Commission has downgraded its economic growth forecast for Slovenia by 0.1 percentage points to 3.7% for this year and by half a point to 3.1% for 2023. The rates are still substantially above those forecast for the eurozone, while inflation is projected to run at 6.1% in Slovenia and the rest of the eurozone this year.