Slovenia Weekly: Reliable in Partnership

Despite the uncertain international situation, Slovenia is proving its reliability as a NATO partner. The commitments recently adopted at the NATO summit in The Hague, which are in line with this year's Resolution on the overall long-term programme for the development and equipping of the Slovenian Armed Forces, reflect the great success of Slovenia's foreign and defence policy.

The Resolution on the overall long-term programme for the development and equipping of the Slovenian Armed Forces until 2030 stipulates that by 2030, three per cent of GDP will be allocated to defence. One of the key provisions of the Hague Declaration, which Slovenia also insisted on, is that a review of the implementation of the commitments will be carried out in 2029 and, based on the findings, the final percentages of GDP that NATO members will allocate to defence after 2030 will be aligned.

The Slovenian government has adopted a measure declaring Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich personae non gratae, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon announced. The government’s argument is that the two-far right ministers incite violence and grave violations of Palestinians' human rights with their genocidal statements. Announcing the measure on declaring the two ministers personae non gratae, Slovenia had made a new step in the EU that no other country had taken yet, said the Foreign Minister, adding that new national measures were in the pipeline.