President Nataša Pirc Musar discussed bilateral relations and topical issues in meetings with her Czech and Finnish counterparts, Petr Pavel and Alexander Stubb, on the sidelines of the Globasec Forum security conference in Prague on Saturday.

European Days of Jewish Culture are getting under way in Slovenia on Saturday with an event by the Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in front of the Šalovci town hall in the northeast of the country. Taking place in several Slovenian towns until November, the festival this year focuses on the family as the central theme.

More than half (54.4%) of those questioned in a poll commissioned by the newspaper Dnevnik would support the government if it insisted on Tomaž Vesel as the candidate for Slovenia's European Commissioner and almost a half (45.9%) see him as a suitable candidate.