Daily headlines - Thursday, 18 May

DELO

Motorway tolls
"Electronic vignettes about to get costlier": The Infrastructure Ministry says it will support the proposal from the national motorway company DARS to increase prices of electronic vignettes by 6.8%. DARS hopes for the price hike before the main summer season. (front page, page 8)

Floods
"North-east hit by natural disaster": Tuesday's rains caused the biggest havoc in Štajerska and Podravje. Inspecting the situation, Minister of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning Uroš Brežan said the damage exceeded the level meriting state aid under the Natural Disaster Recovery Act. (front page, page 22)

Alleged abuse of Office for Money Laundering Prevention
"Risky abuse of institutions": Klaudijo Stroligo, the former head of the Office for Money Laundering Prevention, says that investigation of suspicious financial transactions based on anonymous tip-offs opens door to political abuse and could lead to the office being temporarily suspended from the relevant international association and prevented to access data of akin authorities around the world. (front page, page 2)

DNEVNIK

Healthcare
"Shortening prolonged wait times": Lines of patients waiting unacceptably long for health services has got substantially longer since the law was passed last autumn to cut short wait times. (front page, page 2, commentary 12)

Art forgery investigation
"Criminal police press charges over collection of forgeries": Ljubljana crime investigators have filed a criminal complaint with the prosecution after an appraiser hired by the police examined the collection of alleged forgeries which were to be exhibited at the National Museum in June 2022. (front page, page 3)

FINANCE

Steel industry
"Štore steelworks amid EUR 24 million investment": Štore Steel is amid the largest investment in its history, an EUR 24 million investment in a new centre of secondary metallurgy. (front page, page 11)

Company exposed for foreign labour abuse
"NKBM saving Marinblu and the Šuštars from bankruptcy": In case of compulsory composition, the company exposed for alleged abuse of foreign labour force will get an additional million euro in subsidies from the taxpayers. Most of that money would be collected by NKBM. In case of bankruptcy, the taxpayers will not pay any more money, but will not get back what they have already paid. (front page, pages 4, 5)

Taxes
"How to avoid dual taxation of dividends earned abroad?": The paper offers advice how to avoid paying too much tax as an increasing number of Slovenians invest in foreign securities, mostly online. (front page, page 5)

VEČER

Floods
"'Demanding operation'": This is how Defence Minister Marjan Šarec described the clean-up efforts after days of heavy rain caused floods and landslides in the north-east of the country. (front page, pages 4, 5, 17)

Lobbying
"Throng at doors of MPs": Insurance lobbyists made many visits to MPs of the ruling coalition parties the last time that an attempt was made to scrap top-up health insurance but failed. The paper wonders whether the scenario will repeat this time. (front page, pages 2, 3)

Cannes Film Festival
"Opening with Johnny Depp": The paper has sent its reporter to cover the Cannes Film Festival. (front page, page 12)