The European Commission has cleared Hungarian oil company MOL to acquire OMV Slovenija, the country's second largest network of service stations. The approval is conditional on MOL selling 39 service stations in Slovenia to the British Shell Group.

Just hours before Slovenia was due to mark National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Communism, the government revoked late on Tuesday a decree by its predecessors that created the memorial day with the argument that it was declared without a "public and expert debate".

After over a week of permanent rainfall, the heavy rain that hit the eastern half of Slovenia on Tuesday triggered dozens of landslides, many of which are a danger to homes and infrastructure. The situation is worst around the town of Šentilj in the northeast, where the military is helping the local responders. Rain is slowly petering out.

The Council of Europe (CoE) may play an important role in establishing responsibility for international crime, and international cooperation will be key in this, Slovenia's President Nataša Pirc Musar has said at the CoE summit in Reykjavik, also expressing support for a damage register for Ukraine.