On 16 December, the Slovenian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee approved the closing of Chapter 31 (Foreign, Security and Defence Policy) in Croatia's EU membership negotiations at the forthcoming intergovernmental accession conference.
Last Friday, Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor said that he had promised Croatian PM Jadranka Kosor, within his authority, that three negotiation chapters in Croatia's EU entry talks would be closed at the next Croatia-EU accession conference.
"We are on the right track to solving it, so that Croatia could close three chapters," he said in Brussels on the margins of an EU summit.