ZAGREB, March 31, 2018 - Croatia did not have the right to walk out of the border arbitration procedure, whereby it caused problems to Slovenia as well as to the EU and its role in the Balkans, Slovenian Foreign Ministry state secretary Iztok Mirošič has said, speaking of the reasons why Slovenia had decided to take "legal steps", a likely lawsuit against Croatia.

ZAGREB, March 30, 2018 - A Slovenian court has rejected an appeal by Stjepan Prnjat, a Croatian citizen accused of drug smuggling, against a ruling by Ljubljana County Court that he should be extradited to Croatia, Prnjat's defence attorney Luka Fabiani said on Friday.

ZAGREB, March 29, 2018 - Slovenia sent a verbal note to Croatia on Wednesday protesting against rulings by Croatian courts against Slovenia's Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) related to transferred foreign currency savings that Croatian citizens had in the now defunct Ljubljanska Banka's Zagreb branch at the time of the former Yugoslavia.

ZAGREB, March 27, 2018 - Slovenia hasn't decided to expel any Russian diplomats following the Salisbury case, Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said, while Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak told the Klix web portal that his country would not join other Western countries in expelling Russian diplomats due to the poisoning of a Russian spy in Great Britain.

ZAGREB, March 26, 2018 - Slovenia's government on Monday voiced its opinion on an opposition-sponsored bill that would protect the New Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) from rulings by Croatian courts regarding transferred savings from the defunct Ljubljanska Banka Zagreb, noting that it generally supported the objectives of the bill, however, that it was necessary to modify it and adding that the government was prepared to constructively cooperate with parliament and opposition parties in that regard.

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ZAGREB, March 22, 2018 - Slovenia's outgoing government has proposed a bill under which the Slovenian labour market would remain closed to Croatian workers for another two years, but entrepreneurs think this measure would be counterproductive.

ZAGREB, March 21, 2018 - A Ljubljana court has granted Croatia's request for the extradition of Croatian national Stjepan Prnjat, who was arrested in Ljubljana in an international operation aimed at busting a drug smuggling ring from South America, but Prnjat's defence lawyer announced an appeal which will prolong the procedure of his extradition to Croatia.

ZAGREB, March 20, 2018 - Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić reiterated in Brussels Croatia's position that the border dispute with Slovenia was not the issue of the European acquis communautaire and 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 19, 2018 - The Slovenian Supreme Court has overturned an appeal by the indebted Croatian food and retail conglomerate Agrokor against the ruling by the Ljubljana District Court which does not recognise Agrokor as a foreign entity in insolvency proceedings under Slovenian law, according to Slovenian media.