Daily headlines - Tuesday, 14 December

DELO

Covid stimulus aid
"Among Europe's most ineffective": Slovenia's Covid stimulus aid is among the most ineffective, economist Velimir Bole of the EIPF institute has found in his study. He says the country could have borrowed much less for the same economic effect. (front page, page 8)

Vaccination of children
"Paediatricians vaccinate their children": A poll conducted by the Slovenian Medical Association suggests paediatricians are in favour of vaccination of children. Out of 90 surveyed who have children aged 12-18, 85.6% have had or will have them vaccinated. (front page, page 3)

Ouster motion against ministers
"Increasingly unlikely departure": Even though the junior coalition New Slovenia (NSi) and the Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) as the government's tacit supporter have said they will not support Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak in the opposition-sponsored ouster motion, it is increasingly unlikely the motion will muster the required majority to pass on Friday, also because of the pressure of PM Janez Janša. The same holds true of the motion against Interior Minister Aleš Hojs (front page, page 2)

DNEVNIK

Omicron
"Not even vaccinated and recovered are safe": Omicron is spreading faster than any other variant of Sars-Cov-2 and not even the double vaccinated and recovered are protected against it. The UK will thus offer boosters to all adults with the help of the army this year. (front page, page 4)

Investment projects
"Bevk Perović bureau wins bus station too": Having already won the projects for the new wings of the National and University Library and the Drama theatre, the Bevk Perović architectural bureau has also won the competition for a new bus station in Vilharjeva which they value at almost EUR 68 million. (front page, 2)

Ljubljana road reconstruction
"Ljubljana: Ten years on, old Cesta Dveh Cesarjev but a memory": After the reconstruction of the road in what is a rather degraded Ljubljana area was completed last week, Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković says this could now be termed an elite area. (front page, 2)

FINANCE

Income tax
"In favour of higher net wages!": Ahead of the vote on Wednesday on the proposal to increase the general tax relief in the personal income tax act, the paper offers answers to dilemmas of the opponents. (front page, pages 2-5)

Monetary policy
"J. Powell and C. Lagarde in action. Will they dare make money costlier for you?": This week three key central banks are in session - the US Fed, Europe's ECB and the British BoE. (front page, pages 6, 7)

Real estate market
"How buyers fought for flats at auctions": The paper offers a year-in-review of property auctions. (front page, pages 12, 13)

IT takeover
"Parsek passes into Dutch hands": Parsek, a Slovenian IT company specialising in solutions for healthcare, is getting a new owner as a majority stake is being taken over by "strategic partner" Open Line, a leading Dutch cloud services provider. (front page, 10, 11)

VEČER

Vaccination of children
"Decision will be up to parents": As voluntary vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 gets under way in Slovenia this week paediatricians say the benefits outweigh the risks. (front page, page 3)

Ouster motion against ministers
"NSi not to go for the jugular": The junior coalition party New Slovenia (NSi) is not to vote in favour of the ouster motion against Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak even though he "hasn't got the NSi's support". They are not very critical of Interior Minister Aleš Hojs, who faces a similar motion. (front page, page 4)

Migrant deaths
"Dead due to inhumane politics": Candles were lit in Ljubljana's Prešeren Square on Monday evening in memory of a 10-year-old Kurdish girl who drowned in the Dragonja river and a 31-year Bangladeshi national who died in the border area due to hypothermia a few days earlier. (front page, page 2)

Crime
"She allegedly gave methadone to newborn": In the indictment against a woman who is now 39 the prosecution alleges she poisoned her newborn in the maternity ward in 2016 so he stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated by staff at the maternity ward. (front page, page 13)