Daily headlines - Wednesday, 12 January

DELO

EU funds
"Large ski resorts get 30 million, small ones nothing": The Economy Ministry has published a call for applications for EUR 49 million in EU grants for investments in restructuring of the tourism sector, of which EUR 30 million is intended for development and restructuring of large ski resorts into all-year mountain centres. (front page, 4, 13)

Coronavirusa
"PCT certificate no longer unlimited": As of 1 February, a certificate confirming that a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer be unlimited, it will have a validity of 270 days. (front page, 3)

Cycling
"Primož Roglič also wants Tour and Vuelta": A day after Tadej Pogačar revealed his plans for the next season, his older compatriot and fellow cycling star Primož Roglič also announced his appearance at the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana. (front page, 19)

Bosnia-Herzegovina
"EU thinking about sanctions": While the US introduced sanctions for Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, debate is being held in the EU at several levels on whether to follow suit. The Slovenian government has not taken an official position yet. (front page, 5)

State-owned companies
"Sava moves on without SDS's man": Three members of the management board of the Sava holding who represent the shareholders saw their five-year terms expire at the end of last December. One of them is Marjan Hribar, who is considered a person close to the ruling Democrats (SDS). (front page, 2)

DNEVNIK

Coronavirus
"Ray of hope as Omicron wanes": The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus inspires hope that Covid-19 has moved from the pandemic to the endemic phase, but some expert warn that this is not a given. (front page, 2)

Food safety
"Inspector hide-and-seek with olive oil": Inspectors of the Food Safety Administration have discovered many irregularities as they performed their regular annual inspection of the quality of olive oil sold in Slovenia, but this time a list of violators has not been published. (front page, 5)

Ice skating
"Ice skating rink in Pogačar Square will be open until March": An ice skating rink, dubbed Ice Fairy Tale, opened yesterday in Pogačar Square in the centre of Ljubljana. It will be available between 11am and 9pm every day until 8 March. (front page)

FINANCE

Labour costs
"How much workers cost you in various forms of work": The paper runs an analysis of how much a hired worker costs an employer if the net monthly pay is EUR 1,000 and various forms of work are applied, noting that students and sole proprietors are the most favourable options. (front page, 2-3)

Green transition
"Labyrinth of green funds: where money comes from, for what it is used and what Slovenia will have from it": The paper checks what the Slovenian Climate Fund, which has almost EUR 430 million at its disposal, is doing, and what the Just Transition Fund and the planned social fund for climate are intended for. (front page, 6-7)

Subsidies
"Subsidies for protection of intellectual property available to innovative SMEs": Slovenian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can get special EU subsidies to cover the costs of procedures for regulating rights related to intellectual property. (front page, 5)

VEČER

New year
"What kind of year awaits us": Economic growth is expected to be buoyed by both domestic and foreign demand, inflation is expected to calm down, bottlenecks in the supply industry eliminated and prices of raw materials normalised. (front page, 6)

Sport
"Millions sought for athletics arena": The municipality of Maribor must construct an athletics arena for the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival, and is looking for money for the project that is expected to be built as part of the Poljane athletics stadium. (front page, 17)

Mercator shares trial
"Acquittal for Jankovićs": The court did not find elements of a criminal act in the sale of shares of the retailer Mercator in 2006 by Zoran Janković, acquitting the Ljubljana mayor of tax evasion charges and his sons of charges of complicity. (front page, 13)

Coronavirus
"Testing as business": Testing for the novel coronavirus has become a profitable business for those who supply tests and perform testing, especially in the latest wave of epidemic, as the state finances mass testing as consolation to those who do not want to get vaccinated. (front page, 2-3)