Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Wednesday, 28 February, 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Food quality
"Demolishing food apartheid": A new wave of testing of food products is planned in May, a year after first analyses showed double quality standards in Europe. (front page, 2)
Air quality
"Black day for diesel vehicles": The German federal administrative court has allowed cities where the concentrations of nitrogen oxide are too high to ban diesel vehicles. (front page, 3)
Football
"UEFA happy with Slovenians, who can rub their hands": The UEFA president, the Slovenian Aleksander Čeferin, revealed in Bratislava record high revenues of the umbrella football organisation and record high disbursement of funds to the 55 member states, Slovenia included. (front page, 18)
DNEVNIK
Army scandal
"General Šteiner: If the army can't form a battalion out of its best men, there's something terribly wrong": Alojz Šteiner, a former chief of the general staff, told the paper that the army's debacle at a recent NATO test could not be directly linked to politics. (front page, 14)
Bill on WWII victims
"Victims of war to get 6,000 euro in compensation for seized property": Just before the election, Speaker Milan Brglez filed a bill in parliament introducing compensation to victims of World War II. Although the junior coalition SD and DeSUS see this as a pre-election carrot they will probably support the SMC-sponsored proposal. (front page, 2, 16)
Syria
"Syria: Truce and death sentence to Ghouta": A five-hour daily truce with a humanitarian corridor, which Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered for east Ghouta, was broken by both sides yesterday, leaving 400,000 people trapped and on the verge of death. (front page 6)
FINANCE
New Facebook rules for businesses
"Facebook has changed the rules. What does this mean for your business?": Mark Zuckerberg has announced more posts by friends and fewer posts by companies, media and organisations. The changes will be felt by most pages, the paper says. (front page, 6-7)
Business sentiment in Germany
"Business confidence dropping in Germany. Should you be worried?": Business confidence is dropping in Germany and France. In Germany, Slovenia's main export market, this could be the result of the current political situation. (front page, 2-3)
Air quality
"The decision has been made: German cities may restrict the use of diesel vehicles": There are some 15 million diesel vehicles on German roads and only a minority have the EURO 6 clean engine, for which the restrictions will not apply. (front page, 4)
VEČER
Food quality
"Consumers faced with dilemma": An analysis by the European medical agency has shown that animals used for meat that are bred in Slovenia receive fewer antibiotics than in the countries from where we import meat. Only Scandinavian countries use less antibiotics than Slovenia in this field. (front page, 15)
Bill on SOVA
"Fear of new UDBA": The proposed amendments to the act on the Slovenian intelligence and security agency SOVA have joined several other legislative motions that Justice Minister Goran Klemenčič put on the back burner. (front page, 2)
Church real estate
"Vienna-based fund buying Andreanum": The paper wonders whether Alojzij Cvikl, the archbishop of Maribor, will be able to give any tangible information on the sale of the archdiocese's commercial building Andreanum in Maribor. (front page, 5)
