What the Papers Say: Tuesday October 2, 2018

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Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Tuesday, 2 October 2018, as prepared by the STA

DELO

Start of new academic year
"Don't give up even if it gets hard!": A new academic year started with a traditional event welcoming new students at Slovenian universities. (front page)

Public sector demands
"Trade unions setting agenda of new government": The public sector trade unionists' words from before the election are coming true. They are setting the agenda of the first days and weeks since the new government took office. (front page, 2)

Healthcare problems
"Toughest nut for Samo Fakin to crack will be hospitals": The Slovenian health system is being suffocated by hospitals' losses. Despite aid, 17 out of 27 hospitals were in the red in the first half of 2018. (front page, 2)

Catalan referendum anniversary
"Catalans still dreaming": The message of Catalans on the first anniversary of their independence referendum was that "the people decide, the government obeys". (front page)

DNEVNIK

Sale of Mercator shopping centres
"Mercator shopping malls to be taken over by Austrian Supernova": The retailer Mercator is in talks on the final details of the sale of its biggest shopping centres. The centres are expected to be bought by Austria's Supernova. (front page, 5)

Start of new academic year
"Ljubljana: To new academic year with greetings to freshers": The new generation of freshers in Ljubljana started the new academic year with a welcome event, addressed by the university leadership and Mayor Zoran Janković. (front page)

Skiing
"In Cerko and Kranjska Gora skiing more expensive this season": Most Slovenian skiing slopes operators started offering tickets at reduced prices yesterday. Prices went up in Cerkno and Kranjska Gora, while Rogla, Krvavec, Vogel and Stari vrh kept them level. (front page, 11)

FINANCE

LTH Casting
"Marko Golob received EUR 522,000 in net dividends last year": In the eight years since the takeover of LTH Casting, each of the 13 former managers of the successful Škofja Loka-based company received 47 times as much money through dividends as they invested. (front page, 6)

Local election
"Local election 2018: What do numbers say about life in Ljubljana - 12 indicators": The paper looks at the indicators of the standard of living in Ljubljana, as Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković got a new rival for the local election the past weekend - Anže Logar of the Democrats (SDS). (front page, 2-3)

Switching sectors
"Hygiene in the transitions from public office holder to the private sector": The paper asked the Brussels-based NGO Corporate Europe Observatory to explain the concept of the "revolving door", a movement of personnel between the public and private sectors. (front page, 4-5)

VEČER

Breast cancer awareness campaign
"Don't neglect preventive measures": Three women develop breast cancer in Slovenia every day and almost a third of them dies because of the disease. Unfortunately, women do not use the preventive measures available equally around the country. (front page, 4-5)

Aha Mura
"Lukakčič home free": The specialised state prosecution has recently dropped the case against former owners of the company Aha Mura, Mojca Lukančič and Nigel Peter Buxton, over state aid to the company. (front page, 6)

Grand Austrian State Prize for minority writer
"Austrian prize to Slovenian": Florjan Lipuš, a Slovenian minority writer from the Austrian region of Carinthia, is the first author writing in a language other than German to receive the Grand Austrian State Prize. (front page, 16-17)

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