Setting the stage for continued success

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Low risk for entreprise

  • Economic risk

  • Business environment risk

  • Political risk

  • Commercial risk

  • Financing risk

  • Economic risk

  • Business environment risk

  • Political risk

  • Commercial risk

  • Financing risk

Last updated in January 2025.

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Form of state Parliamentary Democracy
Head of government Andrej PLENKOVIC (prime minister)
Next elections 2028, parliamentary
Strenghts
  • EU membership and good international relations
  • Eurozone accession in January 2023 provides for low transfer and convertibility risk
  • Fiscal prudence since 2015 (only temporarily interrupted in 2020 due to the Covid-19 crisis) 
  • Comfortable annual current account balances since 2010 
  • Adequate, improving business environment
Weaknesses
  • Vulnerability to EU business cycle 
  • Economic dependence on tourism 
  • Net importer of energy and food
  • Public debt has remained elevated despite fiscal consolidation since 2015 
  • Unfavorable external debt-to-GDP ratio
(% of total, 2023)
(% of total, annual 2023)