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This summary is provided by the STA:
Adria Airways management files for receivership
LJUBLJANA - The management of struggling air carrier Adria Airways filed for receivership. On news of the receivership proposal, the Civil Aviation Agency stripped the airline of its operating licence and all flights have been cancelled. The Kranj District Court is to decide on the proposal within three days. The government said earlier in the day that receivership was the only option, as the state was not ready to invest in or enter the carrier under the current owner and in its current financial state. Employees expressed outrage, saying that not saving Adria would prove to be the less viable option than the government's idea to incorporate a new carrier.
Internal probe reportedly launched at Foreign Ministry due to leaks
LJUBLJANA - Foreign Minister Miro Cerar has ordered an internal investigation at the Foreign Ministry over the leaking of classified information, in particular the names of ambassadorial candidates, Dnevnik reported. According to the paper, the straw that is believed to have broken the camel's back was Dnevnik's report that Slovenia's Ambassador to Serbia Iztok Jarc is expected to replace Slovenia's future EU Commissioner Janez Lenarčič as the country's ambassador to the EU.
Alternative for top-up health insurance abolition proposed
LJUBLJANA - The coalition agreed that the abolition of top-up health insurance be made in two steps, with the first being the transfer of its collection onto the public health insurance fund ZZZS. The second step would be making what he termed a solidarity scale for the collection of health insurance contributions, Health Minister Aleš Šabeder told the press on the sidelines of the government session. This is an alternative idea prepared by the health and finance ministries after the opposition Left had filed into parliament a bill of its own last week, which the coalition rejected.
PM Šarec to visit North Macedonia next week
LJUBLJANA - The prime minister's office announced that Marjan Šarec will pay a working visit to North Macedonia on Thursday, 10 October, to meet his counterpart Zoran Zaev and Speaker Talat Xhaferi. This will be Šarec's first visit to North Macedonia, while his predecessor in office Miro Cerar was in Skopje in March 2018.
Slovenia, Croatia fail to agree on nuclear waste storage facility
BLED - Slovenia and Croatia failed to agree to build a common repository for nuclear waste from their jointly-owned N-plant, as the inter-governmental commission in charge of overseeing the Slovenia-Croatia agreement on the Krško Nuclear Power Plant (NEK) met for a session in Slovenia. Slovenia is planning a dry storage facility for low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste in the Slovenian town of Vrbina, just off the nuclear power station, while Croatia will continue pursuing its plan to build one in Croatia to store its share of NEK-generated nuclear waste.
General govt surplus at 1%, public debt at 67.7% of GDP in Q2
LJUBLJANA - Slovenia posted a general government surplus of EUR 124 million, or 1% of GDP, in the second quarter of the year but revenue growth was outpaced by growth in expenditure in a first sign of economic slowdown. Consolidated general government gross debt at the end of the second quarter amounted to EUR 31.803 billion, or 67.7% of GDP.
Annual inflation at 1.7% in September
LJUBLJANA - Slovenia's annual inflation rate in September reached 1.7%, with the rise in prices of goods and services related to housing contributing the most to the inflation. A deflation rate of 0.2% was meanwhile recorded at the monthly level, the Statistics Office said. The prices of services were up by an average 3.9% in September year on year, and the prices of goods by 0.6%.
Govt adopts bill on public sector costs, pension indexation
LJUBLJANA - The government confirmed a bill which limits certain expenditure on wages of civil servants and introduces an extraordinary 1% indexation of pensions in 2020 under the condition of 3% GDP growth for this year. The bill will be filed together with the remaining budget documents to be fast-tracked in parliament. The bill includes two measures which were agreed with public sector trade unions last year. Performance-related bonus for regular work will not be paid before 30 June, while the highest possible amount of the bonus for increased workload is being decreased.
SSH generates EUR 30.4m in net profit in H1
LJUBLJANA - Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH), the state asset custodian, reported a EUR 30.38 million net profit for the first half of 2019, a 17% decrease on the same period last year. SSH, which attributes the bulk of the difference to a cancelled impairment in 2018, said all key goals had been met in the first six months of 2019.
Slovenian marine industry suppliers showcased in Florida
TAMPA, US - Nine Slovenian companies will be showcased at the International Boat Builders Exhibition (IBEX) in Tampa, Florida this week at what is the largest technical marine event in North America. Running between Tuesday and Thursday, IBEX will feature 700 exhibitors from 24 countries. The Slovenian providers will be presented in one of the five national pavilions.
Ethnic Slovenian Olga Voglauer elected to Austrian parliament
KLAGENFURT, Austria - An ethnic Slovenian from Austria's Carinthia has been elected to the lower house of the Austrian parliament for the third time ever, as Olga Voglauer of the Green Party made it to the National Council in Sunday's general election. Slovenian minority representatives welcomed the news, hoping the Greens will form a coalition with the ruling People's Party (ÖVP).
Fmr ambassador sees Austria's election result as big ÖVP win
LJUBLJANA - The outcome of the Sunday election in Austria is a great victory of Sebastian Kurz and his conservative People's Party (ÖVP), former Slovenian Ambassador to Austria Aleksander Geržina told the STA. The result also provides a range of coalition options, with Geržina deeming an ÖVP-Greens alliance the most likely scenario.
Tourists figures rising in August
LJUBLJANA - The trend of the increasing number of tourist arrivals to Slovenia continued in August, with the figure growing by 9%. The country also saw a 2% growth in tourist nights generated, shows the Statistics Office data. In the first eight months, the number of tourist arrivals amounted to 4.5 million, up 6.3% over the same period last year, while the number of nights spent at accommodation facilities reached 11.8 million, an almost 3% increase.
Impol group with higher revenue, lower profit in first half
SLOVENSKA BISTRICA - The aluminium producer Impol generated EUR 378.1 million in revenue in the first half of the year, 2.7% up over the same period last year, while volume sales increased by 4.2%. Net profit was meanwhile down by 6.6% to EUR 18.5 million.
Revenue up for Novem Car Interior Design, but profit decreases
ŽALEC - Novem Car Interior Design, a Žalec-based firm owned by the namesake German parent company, generated EUR 121 million in sales revenue in 2018, a 6% increase on 2017. Net profit fell from EUR 3.4 million to EUR 1.1 million. Novem, which manufactures wooden interior trim for luxury cars, wrote that new projects and the company's fast expansion in the past two years had come at a cost and that the result was below expectations.
Slovenians collect EUR 2.3m in seven days for toddler's treatment in US
LJUBLJANA - A major charity campaign underway in Slovenia for the past week saw individuals, charities, institutions, clubs, and associations collect some EUR 2.3 million for the treatment of 19-month-old boy Kris who is suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. Several top athletes and musicians joined the campaign, including basketball star Luka Dončić, the national volleyball team and even Italian motorcyclist Valentino Rossi. Several fund-raising events and concerts have also been organised.
Elderly day focusing on problems with long-term care
LJUBLJANA - As a world day dedicated to the elderly is to be marked around the world, Slovenian organisations are pointing to the problems brought by the population ageing, including the need for better regulation of long-term care, calling for higher pensions to take pensioners above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. Marked on 1 October, this year's International Day of Older Persons runs under the motto The Journey to Age Equality, aiming to ensure equal opportunities and reduce inequalities of outcome regardless of personal circumstances.
Big crowd in Ljubljana welcomes national sport heroes
LJUBLJANA - Several thousand sport fans gathered in Ljubljana's Congress Square this evening to welcome Slovenia's athletes who had made headlines over the past weeks, including the national volleyball team, which won silver at the EuroVolley in Paris on Sunday. World champions in kayak and canoe Eva Terčelj and Nejc Žnidarčič, as well as Luka Božič, who secured bronze at the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spain were honoured, as were Vuelta winner cyclist Primož Roglič and third-placed Tadej Pogačar.
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