STA, 9 July 2018 - The newspaper Dnevnik reports on Monday that Slovenian NGOs had found out that police officers are forcedly rejecting asylum seekers who cross the Slovenian border in the south-eastern region of Bela Krajina and returning them to Croatia. The police and the Ministry of the Interior have meanwhile denied these reports. 

FRONTEX is also known as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and is tasked with the work of controlling the border of the Schengen area. 

After Germany’s decision to set up migrant centres on its border with Austria, and Austria’s decision to strengthen its borders with Italy and Slovenia, several Slovenian newspapers commented on the situation. 

STA, 2 July 2018 - Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, the head of the NGO Peace Institute (Mirovni inštitut), warned against the proposed setting up of controlled migrant centres in response to agreements made at the EU Summit on migrations in Brussels. She deems such centres problematic because refugees would be confined to the centre until their asylum request is processed. 

The papers take a dim view of the summit.

STA, 28 June 2018 - Slovenia has no intention of making any kind of bilateral agreement with Germany or any other country on accepting asylum seekers from those countries, Prime Minister Miro Cerar pointed out as he arrived at a summit on migrations starting in Brussels on Thursday. 

STA, 26 June 2018 - Prime Minister Miro Cerar, who discussed migrations and Sunday's mini EU summit on the matter with heads of parliamentary parties on Tuesday, said after the meeting that Slovenia was safe at the moment and alert and active at the EU level at the same time. 

STA, 18 June 2018 - A total of 1,450 people requested asylum in Slovenia last year, including 388 unaccompanied minors. The number of requests for asylum rose significantly in the spring only to plunge in June, Katarina Bervar Sternad of the Legal Information Centre of NGOs said at a book presentation on Monday. 

STA, 16 June 2018 - Austria has deferred a major border patrol exercise planned at its border with Slovenia by a day until after Slovenian Statehood Day, observed on 25 June, in wake of protests from Slovenia, according to Austrian media. 

STA, 11 June 2018 - The Slovenian police have expressed disagreement with a major anti-migration military and police exercise planned by Austria on the Slovenian border on 25 June, Slovenian Statehood Day. Interior Minister Vesna Györkös Žnidar spoke of "Austria's internal political issues that should not be spilling over to Slovenia".