Slovenian PM Janez Janša thanks EU, neighboring and global leaders after election
After being elected, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša posted a series of messages on X thanking leaders of EU institutions – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Anton Cost, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber – stating “Slovenija ostaja zanesljiv in predan partner pri gradnji odporne, konkurenčne in varne Evropske unije”.
He also thanked the prime ministers of Italy (Giorgia Meloni), Austria (Christian Stocker), Croatia (Andrej Plenković) and leaders of the Western Balkans – Montenegro’s Milojko Spajić, Kosovo’s Albin Kurt and North Macedonia’s Hristijan Mickoski – as well as Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Sviridenko, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tihanovskaya and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Janša highlighted continued support for Ukraine and noted plans to deepen bilateral dialogue with India, naming Tone Kajzer as a candidate for foreign minister, and added “krepitve dvostranskih odnosov, spodbujanja tehnoloških partnerstev ter prizadevanj za regionalno stabilnost in varnost”.