Croatian economy minister Tomislav Coric said that this week in Slovenia, at a meeting of a Croatian and Slovenian governmental commission, he will “announce at the ministerial level” Croatia’s willingness for talks on building a second unit at the Krško nuclear power station in Slovenia.

Mr Coric said Croatia’s national power supplier Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP), the co-owner of Krško, had already said that Croatia was interested in co-funding construction of a second block and sharing the output “because we need a stable and long-term source of electricity”.