DELO
Natural disaster
"Japanese summer of fear": Japan has been hit by already the 21st typhoon this season, with natural disasters claiming more than 350 lives this summer. (front page)
Consumer spending
"Slovenians become nervous fast": Citing the head of Spar Slovenija Igor Mervič, the paper attributes the decline in consumer spending in the second quarter to fear of potential changes in the business environment. (front page, page 3)
Shipbuilding
"Croatians in trouble, business thriving for Italians": Delo says that Slovenians and Croatians should take a leaf out the book of the neighbouring Italians whose shipbuilding industry yields 4.5 euros per each euro invested. (front page, 4)
DNEVNIK
Viruses
"First West Nile fever case confirmed in Slovenia": The patient who contracted the West Nile virus that was spreading in Europe this summer is already recovering at home after treatment at the UKC Ljubljana hospital. (front page, page 4)
Home guard scandal
"Foreign media calling Šiško, Slovenian police not yet": Andrej Šiško, the head of the group of around 150 masked men who are parading around in woods, brags that he has already been contacted by foreign media but he is still waiting for a call from the police. (front page, 3)
Central bank
"Two current vice-governors favourites for new governor": Judging by statements coming for party deputy groups, the current vice-governors Marko Bošnjak and Primož Dolenc are the main candidates for becoming Banka Slovenije's new governor. (front page, 3)
FINANCE
Child heart cardiology
"Why NIOSB, the children's heart institute, needs to be abolished": The paper argues in favour of organising children's heart surgery directly at UKC Ljubljana hospital as opposed to through the new National Institute for Congenital Heart Disease - the latter is "not transparent, it is expensive and dangerous". (front page, pages 4, 5)
Cryptocurrency
"Most Slovenian cryptocurrencies deep in the red": Finance writes about a failed idea for a cryptocurrency-fuelled construction of a luxury resort on the Croatian island of Krk. It also analyses the fate of Slovenian crypto companies, whose coins are mostly worth less today than they were at their beginning. (front page, page 5)
Immigrants in Sweden
"'These refugees and migrants came at exactly the right time'": While the Democrats, a nationalist party, are shooting up in polls in Sweden, the country is seeing the highest GDP growth rates in Europe, spurred by around 600,000 refugees and migrants taken in the last five years. (front page, 6, 7)
VEČER
Coworking
"The Base is running out of steam": Several of the social enterprises that form the Tkalka social entrepreneurship association in Maribor are moving out a building in the centre of town, possibly because of market pressure. (front page, 10)
Home guard scandal
"Andrej Šiško is the name of what?": Commenting on what seems like a paramilitary unit being formed near Maribor, the paper says that patriotism expressed by extremist politicians is often just a cover for hatred. (front page, 5)
Economic policy
"For a social pact with the government": Business is nervous, closely following the formation of the new cabinet and employers have called for a social pact with the government. (front page, 6)
