It will be hot on Sunday, with highs of 32-34 degrees Celsius. While it will be mostly sunny, local showers and thunderstorms are likely, in particular in north and west Slovenia.

It will be hot on Sunday, with highs of 32-34 degrees Celsius. While it will be mostly sunny, local showers and thunderstorms are likely, in particular in north and west Slovenia.

Slovenia is on track to meeting EU development targets and has even achieved some already, shows a report by the EU's statistics office Eurostat that monitors compliance with the Growth and Jobs Strategy until 2020.

The heat will not let up on Saturday, as highs of well over 30 degrees are forecast for the entire Slovenia, reaching up to 35 in the south. Local showers are possible but not very likely.

A major fire that broke out at a waste processing facility in Zalog near Novo mesto (SE) on Thursday afternoon is under control, though smoke is still coming from the site. Health experts have warned about the risk of exposure to smoke and other gases and to the general pollution of the environment.

The heat will not let up on Saturday, as highs of well over 30 degrees are forecast for the entire Slovenia, reaching up to 35 in the south. Local showers are possible but not very likely.

After past hospital purchases of what are widely believed to have been overpriced stents became a prime symbol of corruption in Slovenian healthcare, the stents have returned into the spotlight over suspicion of a cartel agreement in a recently published public tender.