The biggest opposition party is not happy with the ruling of the arbitration tribunal on the border with Croatia. SDS leader Janez Janša said Slovenia had lost a quarter of the Bay of Piran, while it would have only limited rights in the corridor leading to the high seas.

Prime Minister Miro Cerar announced on Friday that Slovenia would send a diplomatic note to invite Croatia to start implementing the arbitration ruling next week. In a statement for the media, he acknowledged that the implementation cannot start immediately.

President Borut Pahor and Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović stressed the importance of maintaining dialogue as they met in Duborvnik on Friday in the wake of the border arbitration ruling, which Croatia refuses to accept.

International law expert Vasilka Sancin has told the STA after examining the details of the arbitration decision on the Slovenia-Croatia border that the high seas junction area constitutes Slovenia's "territorial junction" with international waters.

Slovenia's general government deficit in the first quarter of 2017 stood at EUR 185m or 1.9% of GDP, according to the preliminary estimate released by the Statistics Office on Friday.

Slovenia recorded an annual inflation of 0.9% in June, with higher prices of fruit and footwear contributing the most to the increase, the Statistics Office reported on Friday.

Following a shutdown of the state-owned operator of the Koper port by workers just prior to last year's AGM, the shareholders of Luka Koper are in for another heated meeting on Friday. The state is moving again to replace the chief supervisor, while a debate is also expected on contentious subcontracting at the port.