Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Tuesday, February 5, 2019, as summarised by the STA:
DELO
Looming postal strike
"Postmen across Europe no longer just postmen": The two postal workers' trade unions are expected to decide this week whether employees at the national postal company will go on strike. (front page, page 9)
Germany's budget
"Germany's balanced budget melting": Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is reported to be projecting a budget deficit of almost EUR 25bn by 2023. (front page, page 6)
Defence procurement
"Have Germans lobbied for the deal with politics?": The opposition New Slovenia (NSi) and Democratic Party (SDS) want to know why the purchase of Boxer APCs has been halted; the NSi denies succumbing to lobbying. (front page, page 2)
Alpine World Ski Championships
"Going strong and decisively for medal today": Slovenia's Ilka Štuhec will be defending the title of world champion in today's downhill race in Aare. She likes the piste. (front page, page 18)
DNEVNIK
Personal data protection
"Agricultural Markets Agency sent data to wrong recipients": The Agency for Agricultural Markets and Rural Development has sent notices containing sensitive data of 1,180 subjects to wrong addresses in a similar security breach as the NKBM bank recently. (front page, page 2)
Quality of school meals
"Quality producers are costly": The Education Institute says that the meat and other food products procured by schools and kindergartens are safe. However, the price continues to rank a major factor in public procurement so it is impossible to rule out poor quality food ending up in school meals. (front page, page 3)
Plagiarism in theatre
"Boris Kobal no longer Šentjakobsko Theatre director": The management board of the amateur theatre Šentjakobsko Gledališče sacked Boris Kobal as director after he was found to have plagiarised an Italian play. (front page, page 25, commentary 14)
FINANCE
Ownership changes at fuel retailer
"Ownership changes in Petrol?": Slovakia's J & T has been unable to increase or sell its 13% stake in Petrol, Slovenia's fuel retailer and energy company. It is now changing its tactics. (front page, pages 6, 7)
Public finances
"How did the government collect an extra billion and how is spending it": A consolidated budget account for last year shows where the government collected record tax revenue in history. (front page, pages 2, 3)
Labour tax
"A move to cut tax on labour at last?": Business associations are demanding a reduction of levies on wages, while government officials are telling them they are being heard. Does this mean action will be taken at last? (front page, pages 4, 5)
VEČER
Cancer
"Increasing number of cancer cases": On World Cancer Day, observed yesterday, Slovenian experts warned that cancer incidence in the country has doubled in the past 20 years to about 12,000 new cases a year. (front page, page 4)
Business-to-government meeting
"Will govt hear entrepreneurs?": Prime Minister Marjan Šarec promised businessmen gathered in Postojna yesterday that the government was willing to give them an ear, but that its duty was to everyone not just one group of people. (front page, pages 2, 3)
Democratic Party
"Media blamed for lack of success": As the executive committee of the opposition Democratic Party (SDS) meets today the question is likely to come up why the party cannot make a breakthrough. (front page, page 3)
Prime minister
"Šarec has leadership talent": This is the view of Danica Purg, president of the IEDC-Bled School of Management. (front page, page 5)
