Slovenian police caught 32,042 illegal migrants on the border with Croatia last year, an increase of 214% on the year before, largely due to a huge influx of persons from Afghanistan, Burundi, India, Pakistan and Russia, the latest statistics show.

EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting on Monday that it is necessary to continue exerting pressure on Montenegro to fill the vacancies on the Constitutional Court judges and emerge from a deep political and institutional crisis, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said.

The New Slovenia (NSi) plans to lodge a motion of no confidence in Culture Minister Asta Vrečko after the government decided to merge a museum dedicated to Slovenia's independence that was formally established by the former government with the existing Museum of Contemporary History.

A court in Kranj has dismissed a portion of a claim worth nearly a million euros that Janez Janša, the leader of the Democrats (SDS), lodged against a former prosecutor and four judges that were involved in the Patria corruption trial.

The majority of Slovenia is under snowfall and a strong bora wind is blowing in the west of the country, causing traffic disruptions and forcing the closure of some sections of the coast-bound motorway and other roads in the area. Power outages are also reported around the country due to the snow and wind.