The STA has prepared the following review of headlines from Slovenian newspaper for Friday, 9 February, 2018.
DELO
Culture Day
"Despite moaning culture did well": Although the keynote speaker at the national Culture Day ceremony, Vinko Möderndorfer, painted a gloomy picture of culture in Slovenia, yesterday's attendance of cultural institutions is encouraging. (front page, 4-5)
Education
"Students increasingly adjusted to market": Final graders in primary and secondary schools across Slovenia will have to decide next month where they will continue their studies. They are increasingly interested in their job options after graduation. (front page, 2)
Olympic Games
"Let the Olympic Games begin!": The 23rd Winter Olympic Games will start at noon today with Vesna Fabjan as the bearer of the Slovenian flag at the opening ceremony. (front page, 25-29)
DNEVNIK
Health
"Židan informs anti-corruption commission of Gorenšek's texting": The head of the coalition Social Democrats (SD), Dejan Židan, was surprised by a text message from the head of the private medical centre MD Medicina, Matevž Gorenšek, last weekend and decided to inform the Corruption Prevention Commission. (front page, 3)
Electronic tolling
"Only third of truckers registered in electronic tolling system": The motorway company DARS will launch a new system of electronic tolling for cargo vehicles in a month and a half, but so far less than a third of truckers got registered in the new system. (front page, 2)
Prešeren Prizes
"Prešeren Prizes: If those on power don't respect creativity, we can't expect citizens will": The keynote speaker at the national Culture Day ceremony on the eve of the holiday, Vinko Möderndorfer, said that art was a non-idealogical opposition to those on power, so the latter would like to characterise it as leisure activity and something that can be pushed into commercialisation. (front page, 32, 18)
FINANCE
Law on personal data protection
"Myths and truths about personal data protection act": The paper presents the changes that the act on personal data protection brings as of 25 May. (front page, 4)
Drawing of EU funds
"Only 13% of EU funds drawn": In the last four years, Slovenia has drawn only 13% of the EU funds available in the 2014-2020 period, even less money was transferred to the Slovenian budget. (front page, 2-3)
Public sector strike
"Koprivnikar in Dubai while Slovenia will be paralysed by strikes": Next week, police officers, teachers and nurses will stage strikes, while the head of the government negotiating team, Public Administration Minister Boris Koprivnikar, will be in Dubai for an international conference. (front page, 5)
VEČER
Olympic Games
"Slovenians modestly joining the spectacle": The coach of the Slovenian ski jumpers, Goran Janus, does not have very high goals ahead of the Olympic Games opening in PyeongChang. (front page, 22-23)
Culture Day ceremony
"St. Florian Valley lives on": The keynote speaker at the national Culture Day ceremony, Vinko Möderndorfer, spoke of the demeaning attitude of the state towards culture and said that Scandal in the St. Florian Valley, a 1907 farce by Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), was still topical today. (front page, 2, 16-17)
Carnival festivities
"Peak of Ptuj's Korentovanje": The Shrovetide festivities are considered the fifth season in Slovenia's oldest town Ptuj, so it is celebrated accordingly. (front page, 15)
