Below is a review of today’s news in Slovenia, summarised by the headlines in the daily newspapers for Thursday, November 29, 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Environment
"European plan for saving the world": Ahead of the Katowice Climate Change Conference next week, the European Commission presented an ambitious strategy under which the EU will be the first large economy with zero net emissions of greenhouse gases. (front page, 3)
New cohesion minister nominated
"He will do what he is expected to": Iztok Purič, the former director of the institution managing the Brdo estate, has been nominated by the Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB) for the new minister for development and European cohesion policy. (front page, 2)
Subsidies
"Biggest earners among farmers": Companies Panvita, Perutnina Ptuj and KG Lendava are the largest recipients of agricultural subsidies, receiving a total of EUR 74m in subsidies in the 2007-2018 period. Panvita alone received EUR 14m in the last three years. (front page, 3)
Chess
"Chess Mozart another two years on the throne": Norway's grand chess master Magnus Carlsen convincingly defeated US hopeful Fabiano Caruana in London to retain world chess crown at least for another two years. (front page, 12)
DNEVNIK
Explosion in Grosuplje
"Seven people lightly injured in explosion in Pekarna Grosuplje": There was an explosion in the Pekarna Grosuplje bakery yesterday afternoon, with the police reporting that seven people were injured, none of them seriously. Fist information indicates that it was caused by a gas leak. (front page, 8)
Local elections
"Matjaž Rakovec will win Kranj": A poll carried out by Ninamedia shows that Matjaž Rakovec, the former chairman of insurer Zavarovalnica Triglav, is to win the mayoral run-off in Kranj on Sunday, with his rival Zoran Stevanović receiving less than 30% of support from the respondents. (front page, 9)
Migrations
"Number of foreign workers up by a fifth this year": There were more than 86,000 foreign workers in Slovenia in September, most of them from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their number was up by almost 20% this year. (front page, 3)
FINANCE
Investments
"Why wealthy Slovenians invest in hotels": Owing a hotel is a difficult business which brings little profit, the paper says as it comments on wealthy Slovenians investing in hotels in the recent years, wondering whether it was just about real estate transactions rather than development of tourism. (front page, 3)
Cryptocurrencies
"Which businessmen left the crypto world and what have they learned": The paper looks into the cases of three business executives who have invested into cryptocurrencies and what they have learned from it. (front page, 6-7)
Ukraine
"What businesses expect as martial law is declared": The paper analyses what the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS), the SID export and development bank and pharmaceutical company Krka can expect from Ukraine after the country declared martial law in ten regions. (front page, 6-7)
Wages
"Will MPs today increase minimum wage and, consequently, labour costs?": The National Assembly will hold a session to discuss a bill that would increase the minimum wage at a rate of 4.5% in the next two years, putting it at EUR 700 net in 2020. (front page, 4-5)
VEČER
Banking fraud
"Caught in the net of extortionists": The paper publishes a contract with which a group of bankers "sorted out" loans from NKBM and other banks to companies in trouble in exchange for cash. (front page, 2-3)
Economy
"Premogovnik in trouble": The management of the coal mine operator Premogovnik Velenje has told employees that cost-cutting, including cuts in bonuses for miners, is the only way to save the company from insolvency. (front page, 2, 6)
Biathlon
"Season starts at Pokljuka": Everything is ready at Pokljuka for Sunday's opener of the new Biathlon World Cup season, in which Slovenia's Jakov Fak will be gearing up to chase his fifth medal at world championships. (front page, 22)
