Trilateral Working Meeting Between Foreign Ministers of Slovenia, Croatia and Austria

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: April 26, 2023; 22:59 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg met his counterpart from Croatia Gordan Radman and his counterpart from Slovenia Tanja Fajon in Rijeka, Croatia, for a trilateral working meeting. The talks focused on the economic interdependence of the three countries and good neighborly relations, but Schallenberg blocked Slovenian wishes to open borders.

Austria's Foreign Minister Schallenberg used the trilateral meeting to raise the migration issue. / Picture: © BKA / Wenzel / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia can look back on long historical and geographical ties, which are visible today above all through close economic interrelations, but also through shared values and correspondingly united political action. As a sign of this, meetings of the three states at the level of state presidents date back to the time before Croatia accedes to the EU. The meeting in…