What the Papers Say: Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Tuesday, 18 September 2018, as prepared by the STA

DELO

100th anniversary of National Gallery
"Our century with the National Gallery": The main national gallery for works by Slovenian artists was established exactly one hundred years ago, now housing more than 15,000 works on 13,000 sq metres of exhibition area. (front page, 18-19)

Healthcare
"Patients in waiting lines to get a call before New Year's": The assembly of the ZZZS public health insurer amended its 2018 budget to bring in an additional EUR 35m for cutting waiting times. Patients now can expect to be called by the end of the year or at the beginning of next year. (front page, 4)

Central bank governor appointment
"President in a bind": President Borut Pahor is not able to get enough support in parliament for any of his candidates for the governor of the central bank, with PM Marjan Šarec saying his party would propose repeating the call for applications. (front page, 3)

Syrian war
"For a demilitarised zone in Syria": Russian President Vladimir Putin and and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed at a meeting that a demilitarised zone will be established by 15 October in the Idlib area in Syria, which will separate the insurgents and the Syrian government forces with a 20-km belt. (front page)

DNEVNIK

New government
"Who are Šarec's closest aides": The paper lists and comments on the advisors to the new Prime Minister Marjan Šarec, singling out economic advisor Vojmir Urlep and national security advisor Damir Črnčec. (front page, page 2)

Basketball World Cup qualifications
"European champions fall to Turks in Stožice": Exactly a year after winning the EuroBasket, the Slovenian national basketball team lost to Turkey at home in the qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup to squander all chances of making it to China. (front page, 17)

Chemical Institute boss murder case
"Novič with indictment against expert witness": Milko Novič, the man recently released from prison after the court suspended his 25-year prison sentence over the 2014 murder of Chemistry Institute boss Janko Jamnik, has filed an indictment against ballistics expert Franc Sablič for an alleged false testimony against him. (front page, 14)

FINANCE

Car taxes
"Why Slovenians register their luxury vehicles in Slovakia": By purchasing and registering luxury vehicles with high emissions in other countries, many Slovenians avoid paying taxes for motor vehicles, and the craftiest ones even VAT. (front page, 2-3)

Wages
"Wages in public sector up by tenth in last four years": The average gross wage in the public administration and defence sector was above EUR 2,000 in July, and has increased by a fifth since the beginning of 2014. (front page, 5)

Investments in logistics
"Where millions for new logistics centres are thrown": The most attractive locations are around the Ljubljana airport and Žalec near Celje, while fast growth is also forcing logistics companies are also interested in all locations along the motorway network. (front page, 5)

VEČER

Gorenje takeover
"In the Chinese era": China's Hisense has squeezed out around 5,000 small shareholders of the Velenje-based household appliances maker Gorenje and delisted the company from the Ljubljana and Warsaw stock exchanges. (front page, 6)

European Mobility Week
"Join forces and travel efficiently": Slovenia is participating in this year's European Mobility Week, which encourages the use of sustainable transportation measures. In Maribor, city buses will operate free of charge on Friday, while the local authorities are calling on residents to spend a day without a car. (front page, 11)

Humanitarian donations
"For Maša and for association's debt": Humanitarian activist Darinka Bukovnik has collected for an operation in the US of a six-year-old girl EUR 359 more than she transferred to the girl's family, using the rest to cover a debt of her humanitarian association. (front page, 8-9)

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