On the 30th anniversary of Peru’s recognition of the Republic of Slovenia, which took place on 17 March 1992, State Secretary Stanislav Raščan held an audio-video discussion with Ambassador Luis Enrique Chávez Basagoitia, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Peru.

The Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the Decree determining the prices of certain petroleum products.

State Secretary Stanislav Raščan attended the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, which this year was dedicated to the possibilities of transforming and adapting diplomacy to new global and security challenges.

Director-General for European Union Affairs Barbara Sušnik hosted Thomas Oberreiter, Director-General for Europe and Economic Affairs at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

After hearing the statement by State Secretary Árpád János Potápi during the Težišče television programme on 10 March 2022 that the Mura was the border river between Slovenia and Hungary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia immediately called the Ambassador of Hungary to Slovenia, Andor F. Dávid, requesting appropriate clarifications.

The gender pay gap in the EU was 13% in 2020, according to figures released today by Eurostat, the European statistical office. The lowest gap between men’s and women’s gross earnings was recorded in Luxembourg, where it was 0.7%. Slovenia ranked third with 3.1%.

European leaders are continuing the informal meeting of the European Council, where the main topics of discussion are the situation in Ukraine and how to strengthen European sovereignty, reduce dependencies, and design a new growth and investment model.

Prime Minister Janez Janša today, on the margins of the informal meeting of the European Council, gave an interview for Bloomberg TV, in which he spoke primarily about the war in Ukraine.

After yesterday’s meeting of European leaders in Versailles to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Prime Minister Janez Janša said that the informal summit lasted so long because many important decisions needed to be taken. "The Versailles Declaration and the declaration on the Russian invasion of Ukraine are something that must be debated, while at the same time, appropriate political guidance for the European institutions and the Member States should be found," stressed the Prime Minister, adding that it was the leaders’ debate about Ukraine’s membership of the EU that took the most time.

Prime Minister Janez Janša is today attending an informal European Council meeting in Versailles, France. At the meeting, EU leaders will discuss Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and its consequences and how to strengthen European sovereignty, reduce dependencies, and design a new growth and investment model.

On 9 March 2022, the successor states of the former Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) signed a contract in New York for the joint sale of the real estate of the former SFRY Mission to the United Nations at 854 Fifth Avenue for $50 million in the most advantageous offer.

Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy has approved EU funding for the project ITI KR KP between the Gosposvetska ulica street and the Bleiweisova cesta street.

On 23 December 2021, the core group of State Secretaries discussed and approved the draft of the upgraded Smart Specialisation Strategy. Interested stakeholders and opinion givers were then invited to submit their proposals, questions and positions regarding the document by 2 February 2022.

Foreign Minister Anže Logar attended the third ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel via video conference. Minister Logar outlined that Slovenia was very concerned about the escalation and spread of violence and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Sahel.

Prime Minister Janez Janša today attended the ceremony to mark the unveiling of the bust of Dr Jože Pučnik, which took place in front of the Brdo Congress Centre at Brdo pri Kranju. He was the keynote speaker at the ceremony. The participants at the ceremony were also addressed by the Minister of Culture, Vasko Simoniti. Prime Minister Janša, together with Dr Jože Pučnik’s son, Gorazd Pučnik, unveiled the bust.

Prime Minister Janez Janša today tweeted that he today had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison.

As part of Government's visit to the north of the Osrednjeslovenska region Minister for development and European Cohesion Policy Zvone Černč visited the project Berk-Vehovar Kompoziti and the Terme Snovik spa, together with the representatives of the Municipality Vodice and Medvode.

In a documentary entitled "Dr Jože Pučnik – The 90th anniversary of his birth", Prime Minister Janez Janša, together with other partners in the process of Slovenian independence, spoke about a giant of the Slovenian political sphere – Dr Jože Pučnik. The documentary commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr Jože Pučnik was broadcast on the first channel of Televizija Slovenija on 8 March 2022.

Through the audio-video conference, Prime Minister Janez Janša participated in the preparations for the informal meeting of the European Council in Versailles in the coming days.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Prime Minister’s wife, Urška Bačovnik Janša, joined the first lady of Poland’s Agata Kornhauser-Duda campaign.