Finance Minister Mateja Vraničar Erman, who attended the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington this weekend together with vice-governor of the central bank Irena Vodopivec Jean, agreed with officials from the two institutions that "roof should be fixed when the sun is shining".

Team Slovenia will launch their campaign to return to the elite division of world ice hockey as they take on Great Britain on Sunday in the second-tier competition known as World Ice Hockey Championships Division I.