Relationship dossier
Slovenia
United Kingdom
Relationship assessment
Constructive bilateral ties, with cooperation on European security and NATO.
Slovenia toward United Kingdom
+35Slovenia participates in NATO cooperation with the United Kingdom and has engaged in bilateral collaboration on European security. Its policy has generally supported working with the United Kingdom as a security partner.
United Kingdom toward Slovenia
+35The United Kingdom supported Slovenia’s Euro-Atlantic integration and cooperates with Slovenia through NATO and bilateral security engagement. British policy has treated Slovenia as a partner on European security.
Overall relationship
+35The relationship is shaped by NATO membership and ongoing cooperation on European security, alongside bilateral diplomatic engagement. This provides a durable cooperative basis, although the relationship is less extensive than a close strategic partnership and the practical scope of cooperation is not clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Slovenia and the United Kingdom maintain cooperative relations, including collaboration through NATO and bilateral security and diplomatic engagement. The United Kingdom supported Slovenia’s integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions, and the countries have continued to cooperate on European security after Brexit. The relationship is constructive, though not marked by an unusually close or extensive bilateral framework.
Key developments
Slovenia joined NATO, creating a framework for sustained security cooperation with the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union, changing the institutional context for bilateral cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scale and implementation of current bilateral security cooperation are unclear.
- The extent of practical cooperation under post-Brexit arrangements is uncertain.