Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Thursday, 28 February 2019, as summarised by the STA:
DELO
Leben resigns
"Six months, third resignation": PM Marjan Šarec accepted the resignation of Environment Minister Jure Leben over a seemingly fixed tender in his previous capacity as Infrastructure Ministry state secretary. He also expects the resignation of the head of the Infrastructure Agency. (front page, 2)
Rare diseases
"Show your rarity!": On Rare Disease Day, marked on 28 February, experts will meet in Slovenia's Brdo pri Kranju for an international conference. A new European platform for a register of rare diseases will also be launched today. (front page, 4)
Trump-Kim meeting
"War and peace in the nuclear galaxy": The second meeting between US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un in Vietnam started yesterday, with Trump tweeting that they would "try very hard to work something out on denuclearization". (front page, 3)
Conflicts
"Tensions in Kashmir": After an Indian fighter jet was shot down by the Pakistan air force in Kashmir, the world hopes that the two nuclear powers will ease the tensions, be rational and sit down to negotiate. (front page, 7)
DNEVNIK
Leben resigns
"PM Šarec reluctantly gives up Minister Leben": Environment Minister Jure Leben yesterday tendered his resignation, which was reluctantly accepted by Prime Minister Marjan Šarec, who expects from the Modern Centre Party (SMC) to find an appropriate, if not a better replacement. (front page, 2, 16)
Trump-Kim meeting
"Trump and Kim full of optimism as meeting in Hanoi starts": Red-blue flags provided a colourful background to the second meeting of US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's Hanoi, with the main topic being denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. (front page, 3)
Euthanasia
"Respected names demand regulation of euthanasia with petition": A petition signed by more than a hundred Slovenian intellectuals and public figures from various fields in support of legal regulation of euthanasia will be presented today. (front page, 4)
FINANCE
Healthcare
"How burned out and stressed Slovenian doctors and nurses really are": The paper looks into pure numbers as doctors and nurses are complaining about the shortage of staff and unsustainable conditions, while Health Minister Samo Fakin is saying that the situation is improving. (front page, 2-3)
Tax reform
"When will the 30% capital gains tax enter into force?": The paper examines what the transitional period could be like ahead of the planned introduction of a higher, 30% tax on capital gains, and what else could change in the field of taxes. (front page, 5)
Interest rates
"You have a loan with EURIBOR? It is being reformed as we speak": A facilitated reform of the European reference interest rates EURIBOR and EONIA is under way, which could bring changes to many loan contracts in euros in Slovenia. (front page, 6-7)
Bad banks
"Sale of Heta going into second round, Miodrag Kostić reportedly offering the most": The sale of the Slovenian subsidiary of the Austrian bad bank Heta Asset Resolution is entering the second round, with four bidders remaining in play. One of them is the MK Group of Serbian businessman Miodrag Kostić. (front page, 14-15)
VEČER
Leben resigns
"Leben leaving too": It was difficult for PM Marjan Šarec to accepted the resignation of Environment Minister Jure Leben, who has been under pressure for weeks over a seemingly fixed tender in his previous capacity as Infrastructure Ministry state secretary. (front page, 2-3)
Education
"Problem of forged diplomas": The number of detected fake diplomas is actually declining, while a majority of fake diplomas from abroad are vocational secondary school diplomas. (front page, 4-5)
Healthcare
"Anaesthesiologists on duty again": The management of the UKC Maribor hospital has reached an agreement with anaesthesiologists to again start working extra hours in the afternoon, which means that the hospital will require less outsourced help. (front page, 8)
