Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Monday, 04 March 2019, as summarised by the STA:
Cancer week
"Let us live long and quality lives after beating it": More than 14,000 people in Slovenia get cancer each year and the number is rising due to the ageing population. Preventive care should not be neglected. (front page, 2)
EU Commission legacy
"What is the legacy of Juncker's Commission?": The first opinions on the Commission's ending five-year term are mostly highlighting its flirting with political bias. An obvious case was its attitude in the Slovenia-Croatia border arbitration dispute. (front page, 5)
Venezuela
"Impoverished Caracas joins forces against hunger": Self-organised groups that have gotten tired of the state's promises and are implementing their own type of socialism in the poverty-stricken parts of Caracas will also be joining today's opposition protests. (front page, 7)
Carnival
"Kurenti take a lesson in entrepreneurship in Cerknica": The organisers of the biggest Slovenian carnival procession in Ptuj, who are having trouble covering the festival's costs, should learn something from the Cerknica procession and start charging admission. (front page, 7)
DNEVNIK
Food in schools
"Parents would want whole-grain bread, the children prefer kebabs": Efforts to give priority to locally produced food in schools are constrained by a 20% limit on orders without public procurement tenders and ministry-set price ceilings. (front page, 2, 3)
Carnival
"Pust was driving away a winter that was not there": Large crowds attended the carnival processions around the country, but Pust did not have a hard time driving away the winter. (front page, 10)
Huawei situation
"Slovenia not joining US attack on China's Huawei (for now)": The two leading telecommunications providers in Slovenia remain reserved in the face of the geopolitical flexing of muscles between the US and China regarding Huawei and 5G. (front page, 4)
FINANCE
Euro
"Germany gained the most with the euro, Italy the least: A winners and losers study published by the Freiburg-based Centre for European Policy shows Germany and the Netherlands benefiting the most from the introduction of the joint currency 20 years ago. (front page, 2, 3)
Ex minister
"What is the new job that is waiting for Jure Leben?": The paper speculates about where Leben will find a job after he resigned as environment minister. (front page, 2-3)
VEČER
Carnival
"Peak carnival": The traditional carnival festivities in Ptuj peaked with the international carnival procession, which attracted around 45,000 people. (front page, 14)
Tax evasion
"To Davos and back to Panama": The paper recounts the story of Dutch historian Rutger Bergman, who recently "'destroyed' the elite in Davos" by raising the issue of tax dodging by the rich. It also argues that the Panama documents leak is still producing effects. (front page, 4, 5)
Football
"Maribor preserves 7 point lead": Maribor record another win and preserve their lead ahead of Ljubljana's Olimpija in the Slovenian football premier league. (front page, 16, 17)
