Daily headlines - Tuesday, 7 December

DELO

Person of the year
"Courage, stubbornness and fighting for the right cause": The paper presents the ten finalists for the paper's Person of the Year award, including former STA editor-in-chief Barbara Štrukelj, UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin, and Nika Kovač, the head of NGO Institute 8 March. (front page, 4)

Energy price hikes
"Companies at risk of liquidity crunch": Electricity prices are expected to go up significantly next year, so the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) proposes a scheme of government aid for those most affected. (front page, 8)

Life imprisonment
"First one with life imprisonment sentence": Silvo Drevenšek, who has pleaded guilty to murdering his former spouse and her parents in front of his four-year-old son on Christmas Eve in 2020, has been sentenced to life in prison, the first time a Slovenian court has handed down this sentence since it was introduced in 2008. (front page, 10)

DNEVNIK

Life imprisonment
"Triple murderer gets life in prison": Silvo Drevenšek has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former spouse and her parents in front of his four-year-old son on Christmas Eve in 2020, the first time a Slovenian court has handed down such a sentence. (front page, 16-17, commentary 12)

Government and media
"UKOM carefully analysing TV Dnevnik, Odmevi, Studio City ...": The Government Communication Office (UKOM) has found a new target - public broadcaster RTV Slovenija has been receiving fierce criticism of individual radio and television shows for two months. (front page, 2)

FINANCE

Supply disturbances in automotive industry
"How they shook the sector and when they will be over": Problems with supply deteriorated in the German automotive industry in November. Since many Slovenian exporters are connected to the Germany industry, they were also affected. (front page, 2, 3)

TAB
"Close to EUR 10m subsidy for battery factory in Koroška": The government has approved a EUR 9.8 million subsidy for a Li-ion battery plant that TAB, the Slovenian maker of starter and industrial batteries, plans to set up with Chinese partner Haidi Energy Technology. (front page, 4)

Public orders
"Deadlines for supply being extended, a few orders have also got costlier": The paper has analysed annexes to public procurement contracts to check how global price hikes, problems with supply, gap between demand and supply and consequences of the Covid crisis have affected the deals. (front page, 6, 7)

VEČER

Life imprisonment
"Life imprisonment for the first time": A court has sentenced Silvo Drevenšek to life in prison for the triple murder he committed in Gerečja Vas last Christmas. But this does not necessarily mean he will spend the rest of his life in prison. (front page, 2, 12, 13)

PC rule for state administration
"PC rule not in line with constitution": The Constitutional Court has found the government's regulation imposing Covid-19 recovery or vaccination mandate (PC) on state administration employees at workplace in contravention with the constitution. (front page, 2, 3)

Obligatory vaccination
"Firmly on course for obligatory vaccination": The new Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will need to beat the epidemic. The paper looks at what the introduction of obligatory vaccination in Austria will mean for Slovenians working there. (front page, 7)

Real estate
"Slovenians and real estate in the Adriatic": Slovenian citizens have 110,000 pieces of real estate in Croatia, mostly in Istria and Kvarner. (front page, 5)