€460 million in FDI expected this year

Spirit Slovenia, the national business development agency, has been around in its current form for ten years. One of its main tasks is to attract foreign direct investment. Its director Rok Capl says it was successful in that last year despite a challenging international environment.

"We managed to get 30 new potential greenfield investors last year. We detected 18 new business-expansion investment projects in companies with foreign capital that are already present in Slovenia," he says.

Three greenfield projects - a type of foreign direct investment in which a company...