The participants agreed that traffic delays will be unavoidable, but they also agreed that they should be minimized. Additional road signs, water fountains, trash cans, and portable toilets will be set up along main roads leading to the Slovenian-Croatian border. Police will direct traffic at the border, and a new set of traffic lights will be installed before the Rigonce-Harmica border crossing.

Croatia's weak information system is partly to blame for the delays. Slovenia is currently testing a new system for checking bus passengers. If everything goes according to plan, it will be phased in over the next few months, said state secretary Andrej Špenga, adding that Slovenia is a guardian of the Schengen border, therefore it is obliged to protect it.

Špenga also responded to Croatia's announcement that Croatian border guards would no longer systematically check all cars, saying that this is unacceptable. However, he stressed that he's opposed to border checks within the Schengen area. "Slovenia is a guardian of the Schengen border, and we are opposed to the reintroduction of internal border checks within the Schengen area, e.g. at Slovenia's border with Austria, Hungary, or Italy," said Špenga.

L. L. (MMC), J. Ž. (RA SLO); translated by D. V.