Brdo pri Kranju hosted a meeting of heads of SIRENE national bureaus from 20 to 22 May 2008. Organising a meeting of heads of SIRENE (Supplementary Information Request at National Entry) national bureaus is one of our obligations as part of our country's presidency of the EU Council. At the same tim...

In Ljubljana, a formal meeting of the SIS-Tech Working Party chaired by Andrej Bračko, Head of the Information and Telecommunication Office of the General Police Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia, was held from 19 to 21 May 2008.

This week, from 7 to 11 April 2008, an exercise is being conducted by the members of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT), organised by the Slovenian Police and the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the EU Member States (Frontex). Today a pre...

This week, from 7 to 11 April 2008, an exercise is being conducted on a part of the external Schengen border in Slovenia involving the Slovenian police and the representatives of other European police forces deployed by Frontex - European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the E...

After lifting the checks at the internal land and sea borders on 21 December 2007, when Slovenia and eight other Eastern and Central European countries entered the Schengen area, border checks were also lifted at air borders one minute after midnight yesterday, 30 March 2008.

Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia Dragutin Mate met Minister of Justice and the Police of the Republic of Hungary Albert Takács today in Lenti, Hungary.

European Justice, Freedom and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said today that preparations for the expansion of the Schengen area to include nine EU newcomers including Slovenia were progressing well, and that the final decision on the expansion was likely to be taken in November. "I expect b...