Alongside the European Parliament election, voters cast their votes in three consultative referendums: on the right of cannabis use for medicinal and personal purposes, on the right to assisted suicide, and on the preferential voting system in general elections.[5]
31 July – A Russian couple posing as Argentine nationals, Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, is sentenced to 19 months' imprisonment by a court in Ljubljana for spying but are immediately released due to time already served in custody and ordered expelled from Slovenia for five years[8] as part of the international Russian prisoner exchange.[9]