ZAGREB, March 16, 2018 - The Croatian Foreign Ministry said on Friday Slovenia had neither grounds nor reasons to initiate proceedings against Croatia at the Court of Justice of the European Union "for allegedly breaching EU law."

ZAGREB, March 16, 2018 - The European Commission confirmed on Friday receipt of a letter from the Slovenian government proposing the filing of a lawsuit against Croatia for its non-compliance with an international arbitration ruling on the Croatian-Slovenian border dispute.

ZAGREB, February 18, 2018 - Border disputes between southeast European countries which cannot be solved bilaterally, should be forwarded to an international court rather than going to arbitration, Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić said in Munich on Saturday where she was attending an international security conference.

ZAGREB, Feb 17, 2018 - Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said on Friday that Croatia, by "not honouring" the border arbitration ruling, was sending a negative signal to Western Balkan countries on their European Union journey which could slow them down.

ZAGREB, February 16, 2018 - In an interview with the Austrian Kurier daily published on Thursday, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that Croatia is open to the aspirations of all countries in the Western Balkans to join the European Union and that a solution to the border dispute with Slovenia is closer than it appears.

ZAGREB, February 15, 2017 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in Brussels on Wednesday that the Commission was not saying who was right in the Croatian-Slovenian border dispute, while Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said it was not realistic to expect the implementation of the arbitration ruling.

ZAGREB, February 14, 2018 - The US position on the Slovenian-Croatian border dispute remains unchanged, the US ambassador to Slovenia, Brent Hartley, said in Ljubljana on Tuesday after talks with Parliament Speaker Milan Brglez about the situation in the Balkans, among other things.

ZAGREB, February 8, 2018 - Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec expressed his surprise after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday that the border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia was a bilateral issue, adding that Slovenia would resort to legal action unless Croatia changed its position and started implementing the arbitration ruling.

ZAGREB, February 6, 2018 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday the Croatian-Slovenian border dispute was both a bilateral and a European problem and that the two countries had the responsibility to resolve it.

While Slovenia seems prepared and organised in the border dispute, Croatia is passive and paralysed.