Daily headlines - Friday, 23 September

DELO

Day of Slovenian sport
"Sport celebrates and awaits political help": As Slovenia celebrates Sports Day, it is clear that politicians have not fulfilled their promises to improve financing, not even during the boom years. (front page, 19)

Pensions
"An increase of roughly 5%": Pensioners can expect pensions to increase by roughly 5% early next year. Whether there will also be an unscheduled indexation of pensions this year is up to the government to decide. (front page, 3)

Presidential election
"Expectations of victory": Milan Brglez will enter the presidential race as the joint candidate of the Freedom Movement and the Social Democrats. Despite the support of two coalition parties, it is by no means certain he will make the run-off. (front page, 2)

Drug supplies
"Disruptions at the gate of pharmacies": Public pharmacies are warning that there could be disruptions in the supply of medicines soon because the National Review Commission keeps stopping public procurement procedures, forcing pharmacies to violate the law when they purchase medicines. (front page, 4)

DNEVNIK

Energy prices
"Limit retailer margins on wood pellets": While wholesalers have raised wood pellet prices by 51%, retailers have increased their prices by 78%. The Forestry Service says the difference between the price of pellets charged by producers and retailers per tonne is now 188 euros. (front page, 5)

Housing development
"Two new high rises along the Šmartinska": The Slovak real estate developer Corwin has bought its fifth plot in Ljubljana. It plans two high rises with a total of 500 apartments, its biggest investment to date. (front page, 8)

VEČER

Patient mix-up at hospital
"Wrong identification not rare": The recent mix-up of patients at the Celje General Hospital is not an isolated incident, though such occurrences rarely escalate to such an extent as they did in Celje. The Patients' Rights Ombudsman has handled several similar cases. (front page, 4)

Pensions
"Government will decide on pension indexation": It remains unclear whether pensions will be indexed to inflation once more this year and what the amount of the increase would be. (front page, 2, 3)

Crime
"Kavač clan fails with appeals": Members of the Kavač clan, a criminal organisation, have not succeeded with appeals against the indictment, which has now become final. (front page, 7)

Coal mining
"Coal mine misery revealed": The government is right to worry about the winter. The Velenje coal mine is on life support because the mine infrastructure has been neglected for a decade. (front page, 18)