Slovenia's outgoing PM Alenka Bratušek, Croatian PM Zoran Milanović and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann are expected to focus on topical EU issues, youth employment and active ageing.

The trio, who held their first meeting in Austria's Graz in August 2013, are also due to exchange views on topical regional issues and foreign policy topics.

Faymann is expected in Slovenia after visiting Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo on a tour of countries of the former Yugoslavia that the Austrian press agency APA reports focuses on three points.

One is the promotion of peace shortly before the 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination that sparked WWI, the other a visit to Austrian troops that have contributed to the stabilisation of the region, as well as helped in the recent flood disaster, and the third to support the countries' reform process.

Bratušek also visited Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia this week as part of a tour dedicated to talks on flood relief and regional topics.