Below is a review of today’s news in Slovenia, summarised by the headlines in the daily newspapers for Friday, December 28, 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
EU
"The fateful tango by Macron and Merkel": The EU will not only enter the new year with its institutions finishing terms, but also with the politically hurt French President Emanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is planning her political farewell not later than in 2021. (front page, 6)
Pension insurance
"Part of Pokojninska Družba A going for sale": The publisher DZS will launch procedure in 2019 to sell its stake in the pension fund manager Pokojninska Družba A. The over-indebted holding Sava will also have to sell its stake. (front page, 3)
Medicine
"There are no miracles in medicine, only knowledge": Slovenia can boast six major achievements in medicine in 2018, the paper says, also presenting the statistics for last year showing that 350,000 people were treated in Slovenian hospitals last year. (front page, 4)
Faces of the Year
"Children who change the world around them": President Borut Pahor conferred in the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre on Thursday the Faces of the Year 2018 awards for young talented artists, researchers, athletes, musicians and dancers. (front page)
DNEVNIK
Prime minister
"I'm a surprise for those who don't know me": The paper runs a teaser for its interview with Prime Minister Marjan Šarec, which will be published in its Saturday's supplement Objektiv. (front page)
Infrastructure
"Lorry drivers to get new surcharge on toll on Tuesday": As of Tuesday, drivers of cargo vehicles with the maximum permissible weight above 3.5 tonnes will pay a higher toll in order to help finance the new Koper-Divača railway line. (front page, 6)
FINANCE
Privatisation
"What will the state sell and what will it keep for itself?": The government of Marjan Šarec will change the state asset management strategy, the paper notes, wondering whether the policy of "national interest" will resurface again. (front page, 2-3)
Infrastructure
"Attention, work on roads and railways: what will we build in 2019?": The Infrastructure Agency will earmark next year a total of EUR 630m for roads, railways and cycling paths, which will realise 95% of the agency's investment plan for 2019. (front page, 6-7)
Auctions
"How land price in Savudrija jumped from one kuna to EUR 2.3m": The fourth on-line auction of eight hectares of land plots in Savudrija on the Croatian coast has been successful. The construction company Imos has sold the land for EUR 2.3m. (front page, 7)
Personal data protection
"What GDPR has brought and how it affects your business?": The paper analyses the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was introduced this year, on business of Slovenian companies. (front page, 4-5)
VEČER
Healthcare
"Bill from emergency ward": As of the new year, patients coming to the Maribor emergency ward because they are sick but their situation is not assessed as urgent, will be issued a EUR 20 bill for the examination. (front page, 8-9)
Environmental protection
"Stop plastic bags": As of 1 January, shops will not be allowed to give out lightweight plastic carrier bags free of charge to shoppers. (front page, 4-5)
Protests in Bosnia
"From Banja Luka: We will go to the end": The peaceful and dignified protests centred around the Justice for David movement in Banja Luka in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina are continuing despite violent intervention by the police. (front page, 2)
