Daily headlines - Wednesday, 24 May

DELO

Financing of healthcare
"They would cure healthcare with tax on drinks": The reforms announced by the government ask for a reflection on how to secure funds for them. In deciding on changing taxes, one also needs to look across the border, as no one wants purchasing power to spill over to the neighbouring countries. (front page, 3)

Capital Markets conference
"Investing in green transition pays off": Companies that pursue environmental and sustainability-oriented policies are becoming more profitable and have better sources of financing, which makes investments in the sustainability component more profitable, the 2023 Capital Markets conference heard yesterday. (front page, 8-9)

DNEVNIK

Education legislation
"'What our country expects from school in the first place'": Proposed changes to the Basic School Act introduce a nation-wide knowledge test as early as in third grade and more foreign language classes at the beginning and end of compulsory education. (front page, 3)

Extermination of nutrias
"Mass resistance to large-sale extermination of nutrias": The announced extermination of nutrias in the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park has upset part of the public. A petition that proposes sterilisation has been signed by more than 19,000 people in just a few days. (front page, 8, commentary 12)

FINANCE

Banks
"Who in Slovenian banks will prevent clients from being robbed": More than a month has passed since the central bank (finally!) told the public and banks that loan takers who cover their loan liabilities early are eligible for partial refund of total costs of the loan. Clients have been eligible for this since 2010, but the majority of them were unaware of this. (front page,

Foreign accounts
"What FURS has dug out and what else it examines": The Financial Administration (FURS) every years calls around 1,500 Slovenians to explain themselves due to unreported dividends, capital gains and other income abroad. Thousands of individuals are yet to be issued income tax notices for last year. (front page, 2-3)

Agriculture
"Certain vegetables twice as expensive as last year due to floods in Italy": The prices of lettuce, beta, potato and cabbage have gone up due to the devastation of the crop in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna due to floods, the Slovenian wholesaler Geaprodukt announced. (front page, 6)

VEČER

Maribor city centre
"City for residents or tourists": A series of articles in Večer about streets in the centre of Maribor in the past weeks has been concluded with a round table debate on whom the city centre should be intended to. (front page, 18-19)

European Youth Olympic Festival
"Nine million for EYOF": Prime Minister Robert Golob attended yesterday a ceremony in Maribor at which the government and local authorities concluded an agreement to complete the financial plan for the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival in Slovenia's second city. (front page, 2, 17)

Air travel
"Ministers tempted by flag carrier": After all options for improving air connectivity have been examined, the scales are tipping to the idea to establish a new flag carrier. A study on the company Air Slovenia needs to be first discussed by the government as a whole. (front page, 4)