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STA, 10 December 2018 - Slovenia was among more than 150 UN member countries that endorsed the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at an inter-governmental conference in Marrakesh on Monday.
Heading Slovenia's delegation at the two-day inter-governmental conference, Interior Ministry State Secretary Sandi Čurin said the document was not ideal, but it was a good compromise designed to enhance international cooperation in all aspects of migration.
"The agreement is a framework that offers guidance, recommendations how to form national policies in the field of migration. The standards therein are largely already part of European policies and legislation," Čurin told the STA over the phone from Morocco.
The agreement was not joined by 40 countries, including Slovenia's neighbours Austria, Hungary and Italy, but Čurin does not see this as a problem for Slovenia, because the agreement's key points have been framed as part of EU legislation.
"Like I was saying, the agreement will in no way affect national legislation, at least not in European countries," he said.
"The agreement has been adopted by acclamation, which is a good basis for international cooperation, something that is more than needed if we want to address migration in a comprehensive and effective way," he said.
In joining the document, Slovenia "explicitly respected the principles such as countries' sovereignty to determine their national policies and legislation related to migration, distinguishing between legal and illegal migration and allowing forced return [of migrants] when voluntary is not possible".
Foreign Minister Miro Cerar, speaking on the sidelines of an EU ministerial in Brussels, said he believed "the agreement will mostly bring positive things", but stressed that action would also have to be taken to prevent illegal migrations at the national level in the future.
"Despite much turbulence the Marrakesh global agreement on migrations caused in Europe, I'm calm now," said Cerar, adding the adoption of the agreement put an end to attempts by extreme populists to use non-truths, misinformation and scaremongering to scare people to gain politically.
However, such efforts will resurface again before next year's European elections and later, so it is important for Slovenia to have a positive attitude towards globalisation and to promote human rights and cooperation on migrations at the global level, he said.
Highlighting the need for multilateralism, Cerar reiterated his view that no country, not even the largest one, can handle on its own challenges such as climate change, migrations, digitalisation and security.
He is happy the Slovenian government made the right decision to join the agreement. Although it is not legally binding, the agreement facilitates common efforts to prevent illegal migrations, especially the return of illegal migrants, the foreign minister stressed.
The first inter-governmentally negotiated agreement on a common approach to international migration in all of its dimensions, the agreement has divided European countries as well as the public in Slovenia.
The document sets out 23 objectives for better managing migration in the interests of countries, migrants and the communities hosting them.
In July this year, the agreement was backed by all 193 UN member countries except for the US, which withdrew from the negotiations in December 2017.
The countries which have not joined it argue the document does not distinguish between legal and illegal migrations, but encroaches on national sovereignty in migration policy.
Offering similar arguments, the right-wing opposition parties in Slovenia had urged the government to reject it. They had also said the agreement does not address the causes of migration in the countries of origin.
The Democratic Party (SDS) filed for a referendum on the document, but it is not clear whether such a vote will be admissible. The parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee is to discuss the matter later this week.
Today, a protest against the document was held in front of the parliament building.
Meanwhile, opposition New Slovenia (NSi) leader Matej Tonin expressed regret that a Slovenian delegation took part in the Marrakesh conference, reiterating opposition to the agreement.
The compact "promotes multiculturalism in a rather aggressive way where it appears as if it should be us who almost had to adapt to those who come here, rather than the other way around", Tonin said.
The agreement includes many recommendations as to how the culture and customs of the immigrants should be respected. "However, the NSi believes that the guests in our house have an obligation to adapt to our customs and to subject to our laws and the constitution," he said.
Tonin added that Slovenia's joining the agreement could be a wrong message to the migrants waiting in the Balkans to continue their journey north.
"A open-door policy is false solidarity which causes even more problems. If countries want to help, they should help them by means of expertise, technology so they can create suitable living conditions for themselves," the NSi said.
The agreement, which is not legally binding, will be endorsed by a resolution at the UN General Assembly on 19 December.
Anti-UN migration pact rally staged in front of parliament
STA, 10 December 2018 - An estimated 200 to 250 people gathered on Monday in front the parliament building in Ljubljana in what appears to be a protest against the UN migration pact adopted in Marrakesh.
The statements of the protesters, some of which have donned yellow vests, indicate they are fearing the migration pact will have serious consequences for Slovenia.
They blocked access to parliament and disrupted traffic on the street in front of the parliament.
Many spoke of high treason, which was echoed by Bernard Brščič, an economist and former state secretary in the PM's office under the 2012/2013 Janez Janša government.
"Senior politicians are also aware of this and have turned tail, letting an insignificant clerk sign the declaration in their place," Brščič said.
While he said that the fear of a referendum will prevent a ratification in parliament that would make the declaration part of Slovenia's legal order, Brščič insisted this is an international treaty that will have legal consequences.
The protesters meanwhile argued they were not only protesting against the migration pact, also listing the failure to get the voice of small people heard, flawed referendum legislation and the need for national sovereignty and the liberation of society.
Before the anti-UN migration pact rally, the same location was used for a small rally by representatives of trade unions, who argued that workers rights were also part of human rights.
Slovenia is among the countries who have backed Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
The right-wing opposition parties in Slovenia had urged the government to reject the agreement. They also say that the agreement does not address the causes of migration in the countries of origin.
The Democratic Party (SDS) has filed for a referendum on the document, but it is not clear whether such a vote would be admissible. The parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee is to discuss the matter later this week.
STA, 10 December 2018 - Slovenia exported EUR 2.88bn worth of goods in October, 10.5% more than in the same month a year ago. Merchandise imports rose by 19.2% to EUR 2.94bn, creating a trade deficit of EUR 59.3m.
Releasing fresh figures on Monday, the Statistics Office said the recorded values of exports and imports in October were the highest this year as well as in recent years.
The export-import ratio stood at 98%. The EUR 59.3m deficit was mostly due to increased imports from non-EU countries.
Almost 80% of Slovenia's merchandise trade was generated in the EU market; 78% of exports and 76.5% of imports.
Exports to EU member states rose by 12.5% year-on-year to EUR 2.25bn and imports from there increased by 13% to EUR 2.25bn, with a trade deficit of EUR 1.5m.
Exports to non-EU markets rose by 3.9% year-on-year to EUR 634.6m, whereas imports soared by 44.7% to EUR 692.3m, opening a deficit of EUR 57.8m.
In the first ten months of the year Slovenia's exports grew at an annual rate of 9.8% to EUR 25.8bn and imports increased by 11.7% to EUR 25.4bn.
External trade surplus in the ten month period amounted to EUR 390.1m and the export/import ratio was 101.5%.
The data and trends indicate that foreign trade's contribution to Slovenia's economic growth is set to decrease, with domestic components contributing more.
Industrial output keeps rising
STA, 10 December 2018 - Slovenia's industrial output in October was 2.5% above the September figure and 4% higher year-on-year, while in the first ten months of the year industry expanded by 6% year-on-year, fresh statistics show.
Between January and the end of October manufacturing output expanded by 6.5%; electricity, gas and steam supply industries recorded a 1.9% growth and mining and quarrying a 0.4% growth.
A report by the Statistics Office also shows growth in production regardless of technological complexity; output of high-tech goods increased the most, at the annual rate of 6.6%.
Capital goods production expanded by 13.6%, output of consumer goods grew by 3.7% and production of intermediate goods increased by 3.8% in the ten months of the year compared with the same period last year.
In October alone output increased the most in manufacturing, by 2.6% from the month before and by 4.4% year on year.
Production in electricity, gas and steam supply rose by 2% from the month before, but fell by 0.3% year-on-year, while mining and quarrying put out 3.2% less than a month ago and 13.1% more year-on-year.
Industrial turnover was 2.8% higher than the month before and 2.3% higher than in October 2017. The value of stocks of finished and unfinished products rose by 1.2% from September by 11.2% year-on-year.
STA, 10 December 2018 - The Democrats (SDS) remain in the lead in the latest Mediana poll, published in Monday's Delo. The biggest opposition party, which topped the rankings for the most part of the year, is followed by the coalition Social Democrats (SD), Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ) and the Left. The government received the best mark so far.
Two-fifths of the respondents assessed the work of the government as mediocre and almost 30% assessed it as positive or very positive.
In September, when the government was sworn in, its average mark was 2.16 on a scale from one to five but now its average mark is 3.01, which is more than the previous government of Miro Cerar reached in the last two years of its rule.
Related: Learn more about most of Slovenia’s political parties here
The most popular party by far is still the SDS, polling at 18.1%, slightly down from 18.3% in November. The ratings of the SD, LMŠ and the Left, which trail the SDS, improved compared to last month.
The SD polled at 10.5% (8.9% in November), the LMŠ at 8.5% (7%) and the Left at 6.7% (6.1%)
The non-parliamentary People's Party (SLS) jumped to fifth place on 5.5% support, while polling at 1.7% only a couple of months ago.
The coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) won a percentage point to poll at 4.9%. The opposition New Slovenia (NSi) follows with 4.2% support and the coalition Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) with 3.5%.
The opposition National Party (SNS) polled at 3.2% and the coalition Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB) at 2.2%.
While DeSUS's support remained level, the remaining three parties lost some ground compared to November.
President Borut Pahor remains the most popular politician, followed by Prime Minister Marjan Šarec but Pahor received a slightly lower grade this month compared to November and Šarec a slightly higher.
European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and MEP Tanja Fajon follow in third and fourth place, respectively.
Pollster Ninamedia conducted the survey among 717 adults between 26 November and 6 December.
Below is a review of today’s news in Slovenia, summarised by the headlines in the daily newspapers for Tuesday, December 11, 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Anniversary of Ivan Cankar's death
"Friends, it's a matter of life and death now! I'm hoping for life!": Even a century since his death, Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) remains one of the greatest creative spirits and intellectuals of Slovenian cultural history, the paper says. (front page, 16-17)
Brexit vote
"Weakened Theresa May returning to Brussels": British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a key vote on the Brexit agreement reached by the EU's and British negotiators last month in the British parliament to avoid a debacle. (front page, 6)
Health
"Example of health system's collapse": The Maribor Community Health Centre, the country's second biggest, struggles with staff deficiencies and work overload. (front page, 4)
Nobel Peace Prize laureates
"Overlooked victims of sexual violence in wars": The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureates - Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Yezidi activist Nadia Murad - called for action and justice on behalf of the victims of wartime sexual violence as they accepted their awards on Monday. (front page)
DNEVNIK
Karavanke tunnel expansion
"Review Commission has completely confused DARS": The bids in the tender of the national motorway company DARS for a second tube of the Karavanke motorway tunnel between Slovenia and Austria are being reviewed again. The Turkish contractor Cengiz Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret, whose selection by DARS has been annulled by the National Review Commission, insists its bid remains relevant. (front page, 2)
Anniversary of Ivan Cankar's death
"Rediscovering Ivan Cankar hundred years since his death": On the eve of the 100th anniversary of Ivan Cankar's death, the main national ceremony was held in his birth town of Vrhnika last evening. (front page, 14)
Cerar's trip to the US
"Cerar going to balance relations with US": Foreign Minister Miro Cerar is scheduled to pay an official visit to the US on Friday to offset criticism that Slovenia is too attached to Russia. (front page, 3)
FINANCE
Construction
"Building is expensive and it's going to get even more expensive": In the first half of 2008, the costs of building apartments were 3.5% higher than in the same period last year and 6.4% higher than the 2015 average. (front page, 2-3)
Taxes
"Macron in France under fire over taxes, Šarec and taxes in Slovenia most popular": Why is the public's support to the government and the assessment of PM Marjan Šarec's work the best so far, while our taxes are above the OECD average and it does not seem things will get any better, the paper wonders. (front page, 4-5)
Labour market
"Beginning of the year most promising in production, finance and logistics": Employers in Slovenia are quite optimistic about hiring in the next quarter, with about a quarter of them planning to increase their staff, shows the latest survey by temping agency Manpower. (front page, 6)
VEČER
Anniversary of Ivan Cankar's death
"Hundred years after Cankar": Slovenia's greatest author Ivan Cankar managed to defy all attempts of being owned and manipulated and remains a "mirror and the Bible", the paper says. (front page, 16-17)
Brexit vote
"Brexit vote postponed": British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed at the last minute a vote on the Brexit divorce agreement after weighing the potential support. (front page, 7)
Air quality
"Air quality the worst in Miklavž": Air quality measurements in the Maribor area show that air is often more polluted in small villages than in the city. (front page, 10-11)
December 10, 2018
It has been reported last week that a Slovenian hunter killed a bear called Elisio, a collar-wearing subject of research at the University of Udine, Italy. The animal was shot in the area of Senožeče, Slovenia, and has in the past five years, while wearing the tracking collar, survived a collision with a train, completed several ascents over 2100 metres, swam across Cavazzo lake several times, and figured out how to safely cross a Slovenian highway.
The event stirred a lot of outrage on the Italian side of Elisio’s territory, while it continues to remain a minor story in Slovenia. One of the reasons might be in a conservation status of the Italian subspecies of the brown bear, that is the Apennine Brown Bear, which is marked at “critically endangered”. In contrast, the Slovenian government struggles to keep the number of ordinary European brown bears in check, with the conservation status marked as “least concern”, and bear salami being an ordinary offer at the Christmas stalls found in the central marketplace of Ljubljana. The important point here is that Elisio was an ordinary brown bear, not an endangered Apennine subspecies.
There are currently about 1,000 bears in Slovenia, and the Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning ordered this number to be reduced by 200, 175 of which will be taken out by hunters before April 30, 2019 (Delo). This is also the reason why Italian researchers reported weekly on Elisio's whereabouts, hoping this would prevent him from getting shot. It did not.
Andrej Sila, from Sežana branch of the Slovenia Forest Service, expressed regret at the incident: “We are all very sorry that the hunter shot Elisio. We have permission to shoot five bears in our area due to population control. It happened as a consequence of a series of unfortunate events. The hunter shot the bear in the evening, when his collar wasn't visible.”. He also explained that weekly reports on the whereabouts of the bear cannot prevent these types of accidents, since bears tend to travel tens of kilometres a day.
This is not the first time Slovenian hunters killed a bear with an Italian research collar. In 2011 a Slovenian hunter shot a bear near Vrhnika, who then turned out to be an Italian media sensation called Dino. In the preceding year Dino managed to kill 14 donkeys in Northern Italy before the Slovenian hunter did not see his collar and shot him in a forest (source). Dino’s survival prospects, however, were dim even without the shooting, as his collar had grown deep into his flesh, causing an infection and starting to slowly suffocate the animal. When the hunter first saw him, Dino was hitting his head against a tree, presumably due to the pain. The collar, unlike the ones in use today, was not equipped with a “drop-off” system, which activates when the collar becomes too small and begins making it difficult for the animal to breath.
STA, 8 December 2018 - Slovenian pop icon Helena Blagne will mark 30 years of her singing career with a spectacle at Ljubljana's Tivoli Hall. The first Slovenian recording artist to fill the country's biggest indoor venue, the Stožice Arena, in 2011, will present her new album tonight.
Blagne returned to the music scene last year after a one-year break with a song about unconditional love Ti Boš Vedno Prvi (You'll Always Be My No. 1), a collaboration with songwriter Raay.
A Slovenian radio hit, the song has more than 1.8 million views on You Tube and gives the title to tonight's concert, at which Blagne will be joined by several Slovenian musicians, from the jazz, funk, Latin and blues fusion ensemble Marko Hatlak Band, to Kvatropirci, ska band Elvis Jackson and Raay.
The 55-year-old Blagne, the most successful Slovenian singer of all time, made her debut performance when she was 12 at a singing competition in Jesenice.
Her career kicked off after she won the hearts of the audience and jury at the Macedonian Makfest music festival in 1986.
Three years later, her duet with opera singer Nace Junkar won the Melodies of Sea and Sun festival held at the Slovenian coast.
Having studied opera singing for several years, Blagne has collaborated with the world's best opera singers, including Placido Domingo and the group Il Divo.
She has recorded 20 albums and sold more than two million records, a milestone that remains out of reach for any other Slovenian musician, according to her label, Dallas Records.
All her concerts have been sold out and she was the first Slovenian artist to fill the Stožice Arena together with Vienna Boys' Choir and three Slovenian tenors in 2011.
She has performed more than 4,000 concerts and won a number of music festival awards throughout the former Yugoslavia.
In the autumn 2006, she also ventured into theatre, having played the role of Agave in The Bacchae, by one of the most acclaimed Slovenian directors Vito Taufer. Currently she is a co-star of a comical musical Menopause alongside three other show business celebrities at Špasteater.
Being a favourite of Slovenian gossip magazines, she made headlines with her divorce in 2013 and her alleged ties to tycoon Ivan Zidar.
Blagne said in an interview ahead of the concert that she was particularly fond of the stage at Tivoli, where her concerts started. "I could have picked Cankarjev Dom for example or the Stožice Arena, which I already sold out years ago. But this stage has a special energy, which I find very important," she told Story magazine.
STA, 9 December 2018 - The lakeside town of Bled, one of Slovenia's top tourism destinations, is set to see another boom year in tourism, having broken last year's record as early as October this year.
Visitors to the Alpine resort have spent over one million nights in one of its accommodation facilities in the first ten months of the year after the one millionth mark was broken for the first time ever at the end of last year.
It was British visitors who spent most nights at Bled (177,000), followed by Germans (92,000) and visitors from the United States (67,000) and Italy (65,000).
Since many Italians tend to spend their Christmas and New Year holidays in Bled, the local tourism board expects they will overtake the Americans as the third largest group of visitors in terms of nights.
Tourism statistics are expected to improve further because Bled has also attracted many of the biathlon fans and athletes competing at the Biathlon World Cup opener on Pokljuka just above Bled this week.
Related: Photo sports - that bench overlooking Lake Bled
Photo: Screenshot of Google Image Search
STA, 8 December 2018 - As 45 years pass this year since the lynx was reintroduced to Slovenia, preparations are under way for the first new animal to be brought to Slovenia early next year as part of the Life Lynx international project.
The wildcat will come to Slovenia from Romania or Slovakia, depending on which country manages to catch it first, the Life Lynx project group has told the STA.
The Eurasian lynx was reintroduced to Slovenia in 1973 upon the Slovenian hunters' initiative.
There are perhaps between 15 and 20 lynx in Slovenia
The current population, estimated at 15 to 20 animals, are descendants of six animals brought to Slovenia then from Slovakia.
The Life Lynx project group also launched this year a systematic monitoring of lynxes with automatic cameras, but results have not yet been fully analysed.
The largest wildcat in Europe is at the verge of extinction; it is believed that it could die out in a few years' time unless action is taken.
The Life Lynx project aims to save the lynx population in the Dinaric Alps and in south-eastern Alps.
It brings together eleven organisations from five countries, with Slovenia's partner being the national Forestry Service.
The first lynx will be released in the area of Loški Potok in the region of Kočevska in the south on the border with Croatia.
Before it is released, it will spend some time in a quarantine in the area, also to get used to the new environment.
"We expect an animal to spend some three weeks in quarantine," the group said.
Ten more animals due to arrive in the country
As part of the project, ten animals are expected to be brought to Slovenia, five to the regions of Kočevska and Notranjska and five to Gorenjska, north-west.
"The lynx released in Gorenjska will help connect Dinaric lynx populations with those in the Alps, which is vital for their long-term existence in Slovenia and in the Alps."
As part of the reintroduction, the Slovenian Hunters' Association will help train some 20 police officers who will investigate illegal lynx hunting, in what the project group said was unique in Europe.
You can learn more about the Life Lynx project in Slovenia here
STA, 8 December 2018 - More than one billion passengers travelled by air in the EU last year, which is 7.3% more than the year before and 39% more than in 2009. The highest growth was recorded in Slovenia, where the number of passengers rose by 19.8% to 1.682 million, latest Eurostat data show.
Slovenia was followed by Luxembourg, Estonia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
The Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport was listed as the 150th busiest airport with 1.682 million passengers, mostly travelling within the EU.
The busiest airport in the EU was London's Heathrow with 78 million passengers, followed by Paris's Charles de Gaulle with 69 million and Amsterdam's Schiphol with 68 million.
The UK recorded the highest number of passengers (265 million), followed by Germany (212 million) and Spain (210 million). Some 47% of the passengers flew within the EU and one in five passengers travelled within their own country.
A PDF of the report can be found here, while an interactive version of the full dataset it here
STA, 9 December 2018 - Finnish biathlete Kaisa Mäkäräinen won the women's 10-kilometre pursuit World Cup event at Pokljuka on Sunday ahead of Italian Dorothea Wierer in a repeat of Saturday's sprint standings. Slovakia's Paulina Fialkova came in third.
Mäkäräinen and Wierer both hit all the targets, but the Finn outpaced the Italian by more than 40 seconds on the skis (+41.3).
Flawless at shooting, Fialkova moved ahead from eight starting position to finish third (+59.2/0), overtaking Italian Lisa Vitozzi just before the finish line (+1:01.5/0).
"I knew I must be fast because Wierer shoots fast. I didn't feel as strong as yesterday but it was enough. I like Pokljuka, the conditions aren't so tough cos there's not much wind," said Mäkäräinen.
Weirer remains in the lead in the overall standings, having collected 144 points in Pokljuka events. Mäkäräinen is second with 131 points, followed by Fialkova with 129.
No Slovenian competed in the women's pursuit.
* Results: 1 Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN) 29:16.9/0 2 Dorothea Wierer (ITA) + 41.3/0 3 Paulina Fialkova (SLK) 59.2/2 4 Lisa Vitozzi (ITA) 1:01.5/0 5 Marte Olsbu Roeiseland (NOR) 1:22.1/1 6 Clare Egan (US) 1:22.4/1 7 Irina Kryuko (BLR) 1:26.6/0 8 Irina Starik (RUS) 1:35.6/0 9 Franziska Preuss (GER) 1:43.7/1 10 Evgeniya Pavlova (RUS) 1:48.4/0 - overall World Cup standings (3): 1 Dorothea Wierer (ITA) 144 2 Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN) 131 3 Paulina Fialkova (SLK) 129 4 Lisa Vitozzi (ITA) 121 5 Monika Hojnisz (POL) 104 6 Julija Džima (UKR) 98 7 Franziska Preuss (GER) 95 8 Irina Starik (RUS) 92 9 Irina Kryuko (BLR) 87 10 Julia Simon (FRA) 78
Boe wins men's pursuit at Pokljuka
STA, 9 December 2018 - Norwegian biathlete Johannes Thinges Boe won the men's 12.5km pursuit race at the Biathlon World Cup meet on the Pokljuka Plateau on Sunday, pipping France's Quentin Fillon Maillet for the victory in a photo finish.
The younger of the Boe brothers had a 48 second lead ahead of the runner-up before the last standing position shooting stop, but missed two shots.
Russia's Aleksander Loginov hit all the targets, heading for the final lap a few metres ahead of Boe, but Boe overtook him at the 12th kilometre.
Loginov fell just below the top of last climb, which enabled Maillet to squeeze ahead, but Boe was first
through the finish line.
Boe, who is in the lead in the overall World Cup standings after winning Tuesday's sprint on Pokljuka, ended the race with three missed shots 0.1 of a second ahead of Maillet, who hit all the 20 targets.
Loginov finished third with one missed shot and 1.9 seconds behind the winner.
The best Slovenian, Jakov Fak came in 22nd. Having missed one target he finished 1:57 minutes behind the winner. His team mate Miha Dovžan was 49th.
"I cannot be completely satisfied, but I'm happy to have partly achieved the goal of making progress. One missed shot is solid enough result, but it's not perfect," Fak commented, adding that he still had reserve running-wise.
"It's great to compete in front of the home crowd, it makes you fly ... But shooting at home is always hardest psychically because you get cheered for each shot," he added.
* Results: - men's 12.5 km pursuit: 1 Johannes Thinges Boe (NOR) 30:20.4/3 2 Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) + 0.1/0 3 Aleksander Loginov (RUS) 1.4/1 4 Simon Eder (AUT) 31.2/0 5 Julian Eberhard (AUT) 32.5/1 6 Tarjei Boe (NOR) 32.9/1 7 Henrik L'Abee-Lund (NOR) 35.1/1 8 Lukas Hofer (ITA) 35.8/2 9 Benjamin Weger (SUI) 35.9/2 10 Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) 42.5/3 ... 22 Jakov Fak (SLO) 1:57.1/1 49 Miha Dovžan (SLO) 4:18.1/4 - overall World Cup standings (3): 1 Johannes Thinges Boe (NOR) 156 2 Simon Eder (AUT) 123 3 Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) 119 4 Aleksander Loginov (RUS) 108 5 Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) 93 6 Tarjei Boe (NOR) 87 7 Simon Desthieux (FRA) 81 . Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE) 81 . Michal Krčmar (CZE) 81 10 Artem Prima (UKR) 78 ... 17 Jakov Fak (SLO) 64
Below is a review of today’s news in Slovenia, summarised by the headlines in the daily newspapers for Monday, December 10, 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Anti-government protests in France
"Yellow symptom of divided France": The "yellow vest" anti-government protesters have almost nothing in common and yet they have everything in common. They are worried about the future, including their children's. (front page, 6)
Brexit deal
"What happens with Brexit deal tomorrow?": British Prime Minister Theresa May will most probably not be able to convince the British parliament to endorse the Brexit deal tomorrow. (front page,3)
Government rating
"Government with best mark so far": The Marjan Šarec government received the best mark so far in the December Barometer public opinion poll. (front page, 2)
Biathlon World Cup meet in Pokljuka
"Pokljuka's Sunday setting course for World Championship": Everything did not go according to plan for Slovenian biathletes and the organisers of the Biathlon World Cup season opener in Pokljuka this weekend but the Slovenian holiday of biathlon nevertheless ended on a positive note. (front page, 15)
DNEVNIK
Protests in France
"Macron is to finally give a statement this week": More than 2,000 people were detained during Saturday's "yellow vest" anti-government protests in France. The situation was the most intense in Paris. (front page, 6)
Education
"Children learn very little about internet security at school": Some children are taught a lot about security on the internet at school but not all, as this more or less depends on the teachers. (front page, 2-3, commentary 14)
FINANCE
Wages at successful companies
"This is how wealthiest Slovenians pay their staff": The paper looks at the average wages of people working for companies owned by wealthiest Slovenians. (front page, 4-5)
Brexit vote
"What is important for Slovenia in Brexit vote?": The uncertainty surrounding Brexit has increased ahead of tomorrow's vote on the EU-UK Brexit deal in the British parliament, because it is quite possible that British MPs will not endorse the deal. (front page, 2-3)
Stocks
"How to adjust your portfolio in the time of stock market fluctuation": The paper analyses the situation on the stock markets and makes projections about the future. (front page, 6)
VEČER
Football
"Towards fifteenth star": The Maribor football team is on its way to become national champions for the 15th time. The team is leaving for the winter break with a huge advantage ahead of all other teams. (front page, 2, 16-17)
Protests in France
"Anger in France growing": The rage over the announced rise in excise duties on fuel has grown into calls for President Emmanuel Macron's resignation. (front page, 5)
Holidays
"Santa Claus on tour": Santa Claus came to greet children from the Pohorje hills as customary on Saturday. He will tour Maribor's schools and kindergartens this week before bidding farewell in Leon Štukelj Square on 28 December. (front page, 8)
