Croatia's immediate neighbours to the north are determined to get their way.

The judgements of the Croatian courts are binding on Slovenia as well as they are on other European Union member states.

ZAGREB, January 18th, 2018 - Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar on Wednesday strongly denied an article in the Croatian newspaper Vecernji List according to which he backed down from a draft agreement on resolution of the border dispute a day before his recent visit to Zagreb, saying that Slovenia was insisting on the implementation of the border arbitration ruling.

Tensions have only risen in the increasingly uncomfortable situation between Croatia and Slovenia.

Croatian and Slovenian Prime Ministers Andrej Plenković and Miro Cerar held talks in Zagreb on Tuesday with the goal of resolving the border disputes ahead of December 29, the deadline envisioned as the implementation of the decision

If there is no agreement with Croatia, Slovenia reportedly has another plan.

Slovenian Prime Minister Cerar and Foreign Minister Erjavec are in open disagreement.

The alleged reason is Croatian Prime Minister’s speech at the UN on Thursday evening.

The topic of the meeting with his Croatian counterpart Plenković will be the border arbitration dispute and tense relations between the two countries.

While there are many open political issues between the two states, economic relations are much more positive.