Daily headlines - Friday, 21 May

DELO

Church vs state
"Government even more inclined to Catholic Church": After abolishing the office for religious communities, which had been active since 1993, the government is now establishing a council for unresolved issues with the Catholic Church. (front page, 3)

Books
"A book that will shake up politics": Edvard Oven, the former director of the national Housing Fund, has written an autobiographical book in which he had to tell about what had bothered him in Slovenian politics. (front page, 4)

Military exercise
"Exercise at Poček, for real in Brestanica": As several military exercises are taking place these days under the umbrella name Defender Europe 2021, a Spanish helicopter struck power lines near the town of Brestanica and had to make emergency landing. (front page)

DNEVNIK

Church vs state
"Vatican agreement 2 being prepared": The government has established a council for unresolved issues with the Catholic Church that will be in charge of "gathering, documenting and examining unresolved issues with the Church on a national and international level". (front page, 4)

Police
"Police officers would be checked with polygraph": The Interior Ministry is planning a legislative change under which police officers in internal security procedures could be examined with a polygraph. (front page, 3)

VEČER

Coronavirus
"How to cross the border": The paper looks at whether a vaccination certificate is enough to cross the border with Croatia, and how to get it, and whether the card handed out to vaccinated persons at vaccination centres will do. (front page, 3)

Maribor
"Fištravec critical of Arsenovič": Complications around the financing of sport in Maribor have prompted the former mayor of Maribor to speak out after a long time against the current Mayor Saša Arsenovič and his team. (front page, 9)

NATO
"Return to homeland from Afghanistan: The six remaining Slovenian soldiers in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan returned home yesterday. Slovenia has ended the 17-year presence in Afghanistan without casualties. (front page, 4-5)

Reading culture
"Reading Badge celebrates a jubilee": It started in 1961 in Prevalje and has since grown into an all-Slovenian thing and a role model for other countries, the paper says on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reading-promotion movement. (front page, 13)