Prime Minister Robert Golob will travel to Washington, DC, to meet US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, the White House announced on Friday. This will be the first bilateral visit by a Slovenian prime minister to the US president in 18 years, since Janez Janša visited George W. Bush in 2006, the prime minister's office said.

Government and car industry representatives agreed on measures to help the sector weather a potential crisis and achieve the necessary innovation breakthrough as they met on Friday. They plan to come up with a way to double the EUR 200 million funds intended for a green mobility initiative, and work on geographical diversification measures.

Slovenian police dealt with 37,212 illegal crossings of the border in the first nine months of 2024, about 7,500 or 17% fewer than during the same period last year. Syrian nationals continue to stand out, their numbers being up 13-fold and accounting for more than a third of all cases. Afghans follow, but their numbers have more than halved.