Daily headlines - Friday, 11 February

DELO

Foreign workforce
"Number of foreign workers doubles": A total of 112,000 foreigners were active on the Slovenian labour market last November, which is double the number from ten years ago. (front page, 3)

Coronavirus
"25.7 million for self-testing": The Ministry of Education has assessed that the measure of self-testing of school children has been effective, as it has reduced the number of infections and in-person schooling continues. Some 1,500 children are still quarantined at home. (front page, 4)

Beijing Olympics
"Warm reception for Urša Bogataj": Several hundred people welcomed yesterday ski jumper Urša Bogataj, who won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics, in her native Polhov Gradec as she returned from Beijing. (front page, 18-19)

DNEVNIK

Education
"It is getting harder to get to the desired school": In the next school year, the secondary school generation will be 5% larger than the previous one, and it may happen that some students will not be enrolled in the school they initially pick. (front page, 2)

Tourism
"Experience park to be build in Stara Vrhnika": An investor has a plan to build an experience park with glamping facilities in the area of the former shooting range in Stara Vrhnika, a project estimated at EUR 5 million. Locals are not happy about the project. (front page, 8)

VEČER

Maribor infrastructure
"Swimming pool opening after eight years": The renovated Pristan swimming pool in Maribor will be re-opened this evening after it was closed in January 2014. The project cost EUR 2.7 million after being initially estimated at EUR 400,000. (front page, 17)

Staffing in state-owned companies
"After Pošta, SDS entering Intereuropa?": After Tomaž Kokot was appointed the director of the national postal operator Pošta Slovenije, the paper wonders whether people close to the Democrats (SDS) will also be appointed in the logistics company Intereuropa. (front page, 6)

Literature
"Hundred years since birth of Ela Peroci": Ela Peroci (1922-2001) wrote the first urban fairy tale in Slovenia, as city children and their adventures were not to be found in Slovenian children's literature before that. (front page, 8-9)