Below is a review of today’s news in Slovenia, summarised by the headlines in the daily newspapers for Tuesday, January 8, 2019, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Consumer Electronics Show
"Future now": CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, has opened in Las Vegas to answer questions such as when self-driving cars will be used in everyday life and how large screens will we watch. (front page, page 3)
Property market
"Apartment prices drop in Ljubljana": While property prices in most parts of Slovenia keep growing, statistics show that they have begun to fall in Ljubljana. (front page, page 9)
Fiction
"Houellebecq stirs agitation again": Michel Houellebecq's latest novel Serotonin hit French book stores on 4 January. The first readers are thrilled. (front page, page 14)
DNEVNIK
Sex crime
"If victim is asleep, this isn't a rape?": A man from the Primorska region has been acquitted of rape charges because he did not use force to complete his attack until the victim had woken up. (front page, page 2)
Railways
"As many as 52 new trains on Slovenian railways": The national railways operator will buy 52 new trains by 2023, including double-deckers; 26 will be supplied by Swiss Stadler this year. (front page, page 4)
Brexit drill
"UK: Lorries test no-deal Brexit": The UK Department for Transport held an exercise yesterday involving a convoy of lorries to test plans for border disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit. (front page, page 7)
FINANCE
ICOs
"Should cryptoinvestors kiss their money goodbye?": Despite promises and assurances on the website of the Xaurum Gamma project, the investors in the initial coin offering for the project to build a holiday resort on the Croatian island of Krk have not been given their money back. (front page, pages 2, 3)
Labour market
"Does record high employment rate indicate inactive are returning to the labour market?": Higher demand for staff and growing wages have attracted to the labour market those who have so far been unwilling to do any work but were not necessarily registered as unemployed. (front page, pages 4, 5)
Sovereign debt
"Slovenia opens 2019 bond market season by taking out EUR 1.5bn in debt": According to Bloomberg, Slovenia is the first country to have offered a new euro bond to the market this year. (front page, page 8)
VEČER
Skiing season
"There's enough snow": Despite the lack of snow, the company operating ski lifts on the Pohorje hills above Maribor says that the piste hosting the alpine skiing World Cup is ready. (front page, page 11)
Retirement homes
"Higher pay, higher retirement home prices": In the wake of the deal on higher wages in the public sector, some of the retirement homes have already increased the prices of services, while some are yet to do so. (front page, page 3)
Environmental permits
"People worried about plant's expansion": The public response to the application by TAB Mežica for an environmental permit for a new industrial battery plant in Žerjav in the north-east of the country shows concern about the risk of pollution. (front page, page 6)
