The skies will clear up on Friday after a rainy night, and northerly to north-westerly winds will blow. Morning lows will range from -1 to 4 degrees Celsius, dropping to -4 in Alpine valleys and reaching 7 degrees at the coast.

Economy Ministry State Secretary Aleš Cantarutti, who attended a ministerial of the EU Competitiveness Council on Thursday, called for an appropriate way of dealing with energy-intensive industry in the new EU industrial strategy and cautioned against a two-tier Europe in the green transition.

The outgoing cabinet adopted on Thursday measures to contain the new coronavirus in case it spreads to Slovenia. It released strategic commodity reserves to ensure enough protective gear but noted that borders with neighbouring countries remained open and that there was no reason for panic.

The Foreign Ministry has advised Slovenian citizens to postpone non-urgent trips to the South Korean regions of Daegu and Cheongju and to Iran due to the spreading of novel coronavirus infection and related restrictive measures.

The skies will clear up on Friday after a rainy night, and northerly to north-westerly winds will blow. Morning lows will range from -1 to 4 degrees Celsius, dropping to -4 in Alpine valleys and reaching 7 degrees at the coast.

The outgoing government endorsed on Thursday the National Energy and Climate Plan, a set of energy policy and climate change mitigation measures until 2030. The document, which will now be sent to Brussels, is "realistically ambitious", said Infrastructure Minister Alenka Bratušek.

The newspaper Dnevnik warns against panic over the novel coronavirus COVID-19, saying, however, that the Health Ministry should admit it has not handled the situation very well, considering that there still seem to be a lot of unclarity among GPs.