
Slovenia will participate in the procurement of IRIS-T SLM air defence systems from Germany as part of the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) under an agreement signed between the two countries' defence ministries in Berlin on 6 December.
According to the Slovenian Ministry of Defence, the agree

Slovenia's largest opposition party has distanced itself from its most popular member, former Foreign Minister Anže Logar, declaring there is no longer any doubt he is forming his own party. Some pundits say such a party could help the centre-right bloc win the next election.
Logar, 47, currently s

Beti Hohler will become the first Slovenian ever to serve as judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was elected by parties to the Rome Statute in the eighth round of voting in New York on 5 December, winning 82 out of 123 votes.
An expert in international criminal law, Hohler currentl

Slovenia will secure €1.5 million for demining activities in Ukraine by the end of this year under an agreement signed by Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Taran on 4 December.
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who attended the signing by videoconference,

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President Nataša Pirc Musar pledged Slovenia's €1.5 million contribution to the Loss and Damage Fund to help the world's most vulnerable countries hit by climate disaster as she addressed the UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai on 1 December. She said world leaders should only be waging one war

The National Assembly has passed a 16-point declaration on the situation in Palestine and Israel in which Slovenia condemns Hamas's attack against Israel while denouncing any attacks by both Hamas and Israel on civilian targets and urging all sides to an immediate ceasefire.
The debate at the plena

Slovenia will purchase six AW139M multi-role helicopters from Italy for €188 million under a deal signed by Defence Minister Marjan Šarec and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto.
Šarec and Crosetto signed an amendment to the implementing agreement between the two ministries on cooperation in m

Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon urged steps towards lasting peace and push for a peace process that would lead to a two-state solution as she toured Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt with her Portuguese counterpart Joao Gomes Cravinho on 24 and 25 November, just when a four-day ceasefi

Slovenia's state budget deficit is to hit 3.3% of GDP in 2024 due to spending for post-flood reconstruction but then drop to 1.8% in 2025 under budget documents passed by the National Assembly on 22 November amid concerns raised by economists that budgeting is unreliable.
In 2024, €14 billion in re