Daily headlines - Thursday, 17 February

DELO

Construction industry
"Construction growing and so are prices going sky high": There is huge demand for construction services with the outlook for growth to continue at least this year and the next. (front page, page 9)

Public broadcaster
"Impact of opinion polls on electorate": New members of the supervisory board and programming council of RTV Slovenija have taken issue with the public opinion polls commissioned by the broadcaster from Mediana. (front page, page 2)

Health and social care strike
"They demand fair pay for fair work": Trade unions in health and social care called for fair pay for fair work yesterday as strike was under way at hospitals, health centres, care homes, social work centres and pharmacies. (front page, page 3)

DNEVNIK

Health and social care strike
"More than 2000 nurses short": The Chamber of Nurses and Midwives estimates an extra 1,100 nurses are lacking in primary care alone. The shortages will be felt even more post-Covid due to delays in treatments. (front page, page 2)

Pre-school education
"No plan to raise Ljubljana kindergarten fees": Before enrolment starts in March in the 23 municipal kindergartens in Ljubljana, Mayor Zoran Janković has promised prices will not go up this year. (front page, page 9)

FINANCE

Gas providers
"Who has raised prices the most and who has the cheapest gas now": Some of the providers have raised gas prices of natural gas for households by up to 150% and more and some have not changed them at all. (front page, pages 2, 3)

Bank fees
"Which services are costlier and which will be yet": The wave of price hikes has not left banks out. The paper looks at which have raised the prices of their services, which are yet planing to do so and which are not. (front page, pages 4, 5)

Solar energy
"Challenge of mindset and dual use of plots": The paper visits Ekod, the company that erected Slovenia's first fixed stand-alone solar power plant 12 years ago in what it describes as the beginnings of agrovoltaics in the country. (front page, pages 22-24)

VEČER

Maribor utility companies
"Substantially less in donations": The amount of money that Maribor utility companies give for donations and sponsorship agreements has decreased drastically during the term of Mayor Saša Arsenovič. (front page, pages 18, 19)

Crime
"Twins at the helm of drug cartel": Police conducted more than 30 house searches in the wider Ljubljana area on Tuesday as part of investigation into a drug cartel allegedly headed by twin brothers. (front page, pages 2, 12)

Politics
"Ideological charge getting stronger": Two clearly opposed socio-economic ideologies have clashed over the amendments to the income tax act with the question being which side is to score more political points ahead of the election. (front page, page 4)

Health and social care strike
"They deserve fair pay": Some 50,000 staff in health and social care were on strike yesterday for fair pay and work standards, including servers working at hospitals in wage brackets below the minimum wage. (front page, pages 2, 3)