Daily headlines - Tuesday, 20 April

DELO

Holiday allowance
"Holiday allowance at least a thousand euro this year": The holiday allowance, which employers have to pay to all employees, will be higher on average due to the higher minimum wage. The hospitality and tourism industry says it will not stand the burden despite the gradual easing of restrictions. (front page, page 9)

Covid measures at schools
"Pupil self-testing being delayed": Self-testing of secondary school pupils is to start on Friday if the tests are validated by then. Vaccination of final-year pupils will also take place then but out of about 17,000 eligible students and several thousand staff involved in the matura exams only 2,625 plan to get a jab. (front page, page 3)

Diplomacy
"We could write a monograph on independence diplomacy": Zvone Dragan, a former politician, economist and diplomat, says the warm-cold politics suits the government, and President Borut Pahor is obviously not just standing by but is openly supporting Janez Janša's game. (front page, page 12)

Slovenian Press Agency
"Statehood attribute's days counted": The STA, one of the attributes of Slovenian statehood is grappling with existential problems as government financing has been suspended since the start of the year. Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti says the agency's services are needed no longer as all the information it offers is available on the internet. (front page, page 2)

Space exploration
"Historic: Helicopter takes off for Mars": The Ingenuity helicopter made a successful flight to the neighbouring planet yesterday. (front page)

DNEVNIK

Covid-19 treatment
"No miracle cure for now": Many of the medications tested by researchers has been used for the treatment of other diseases and some may help Covid-19 patients but none of them appear to be "miraculously" effective for now. (front page, page 2)

Football Super League
"UEFA with legal means against Super League": The football giants' revolutionary move to found a new European Super League has met with strong reactions world-wide. UEFA boss Aleksander Čeferin says it is a disgraceful and greedy plan by a handful of clubs. (front page, page 13, commentary 12)

Outdoor hospitality reopening
"Hospitality terraces open again": The bravest who enjoyed hospitality reopening in Bled yesterday blamed low temperatures and a bad weather forecast as the main reason why guests were not jostling for tables at the Alpine gem. (front page, page 7)

FINANCE

Tourism
"Flight from tourism": Forced into layoffs to keep afloat during months of lockdown, tourism companies are now seeing the key staff they have kept quitting for other industries. A fight for personnel is looming. (front page, pages 2, 3)

Property market
"How I rented a flat in Trieste and later bought a house nearby": Prices of properties just beyond the Italian border are much lower than those on the Slovenian coast or in Ljubljana and the quality of life in central Slovenia cannot compare with the quality of life that is raised by the Mediterranean. (front page, pages 14, 15)

Football Super League
"What does Super League founding means for Čeferin's UEFA": The plan to start a new European Super League, to feature top 20 European clubs, is giving a headache to the UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, which would get much less money as a result. (front page, page 6)

VEČER

Football Super League
"The dirty twelve": Twelve elite European football clubs have shocked the rest of the football world by founding their own competition, the Super League. (front page, pages 2, 22, 23)

Political staffing
"Party criteria": Examples of staffing at the postal company, Telekom Slovenije and the motorway company show political affiliation is a key appointment criterion. (front page, page 4)

Outdoor hospitality reopening
"Out for coffee even in rain": The bad weather that accompanied the reopening of bar, cafe and restaurant terraces did not dissuade those who had been anticipating it most eagerly. (front page, page 5)