2017 in Slovenia

Incumbents

• President: Borut Pahor
• Prime Minister: Miro Cerar

  Events

• January 28 - Slovenia national handball team claims third place at the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship, becoming the first team to win a medal for Slovenia in team sports at world championships.
• June 29 - Croatia–Slovenia border disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration issues a decision in the arbitration case between the two neighbouring countries, ruling, among other things, that Slovenia should have access to international waters through a corridor crossing Croatian territorial waters. Croatia doesn't acknowledge the decision.
• September 17 - Slovenia national basketball team wins the EuroBasket 2017 championship, becoming European champions.
• September 24 - the majority of voters back the proposed law governing the Divača-Koper railway upgrade in a national referendum.
• October 22 - incumbent president Borut Pahor wins first round of the Slovenian presidential election 2017, but falls short of the majority needed for an outright re-election.
• November 12 - incumbent president Borut Pahor is re-elected in the second round of the Slovenian presidential election 2017, winning 53% of the vote against the runner-up Marjan Šarec.

  Deaths

• January 13 - Anton Nanut, conductor.
• January 17 - Alenka Goljevšček, writer, essayist and playwright.
• July 30 - Anton Vratuša, politician and diplomat
• December 10 - Jernej Šugman, actor