The meeting, which should mark the new round of bilateral relations at all levels, was announced last November on the margins of a meeting of the Central European Initiative in Slovenia's Portoroz, during Sanader's informal meeting with Jansa, who was at the time Slovenia's prime minister designate,
As the prime minister of an EU member country, Jansa supported Croatia's accelerated start of negotiations on EU membership and Slovenians supported Croatia at the crucial EU summit in Brussels when Zagreb won the date for the start of EU entry talks.