Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Wednesday, 27 February 2019, as summarised by the STA:
DELO
Public transportation
"Where is Graz better than Ljubljana?": Ahead of the increase in prices of public transportation in Ljubljana, the paper compares the system in the Slovenian capital and in Austria's Graz. (front page, 10)
Tax changes
"Higher wages, lower savings": The lowering of taxation of wages that is being prepared by the Finance Ministry is more noticeable that in the past tax changes, but wages will still be taxed more than in the countries Slovenia "competes" with. (front page, 3) - TSN will have a story on this up by 10:30, 27/02/2019
Trump-Kim meeting
"Denuclearization in two acts": The second meeting between US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un in Vietnam is expected to result in more concrete steps towards denuclearization. (front page, 5)
Skiing
"Splint and rest instead of surgery": Good news are coming from the camp of Ilka Štuhec, as the women's downhill world champion will not require surgery on a partial tear of the posterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, suffered last Saturday. (front page, 18)
DNEVNIK
Government
"Jure Leben's ministerial days are numbered": Environment Minister Jure Leben will probably be the third minister in the Marjan Šarec government who will need to go, as the evidence of his interference in the tender for the scale model of the Koper-Divača rail project as the Environment Ministry state secretary is overwhelming. (front page, 2)
Real estate in Ljubljana
"Center Bellevue with 70 apartments instead of warehouse": The Austrian-owned company Bellevue Living intends to build a commercial and residential complex at the location of the former warehouse of the brewer Pivovarna Laško Union in the centre of Ljubljana. (front page, 2)
FINANCE
Tax reform
"How much higher wages and holiday allowance will be": The paper analyses the changes to the tax legislation announced by the Finance Ministry in the sense of who will get more and who will get hit with higher taxes. (front page, 2-4)
Banks
"Will Hungarians buy SKB?": Unofficially, the French banking and insurance group Societe Generale has put up the Slovenian bank SKB for sale, with the prospective buyer being Hungary's OTP Bank. (front page, 5)
Healthcare
"Slovenia dropped on the list, Serbia overtook us": Slovenia has dropped five spots to 21st on the list rating the performance of healthcare system in 35 European countries by the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI). (front page, 6)
Energy
"Greeks get EUR 123 million deal in Ljubljana": The public utility Energetika Ljubljana has signed a deal with the Greek industrial company Mytilineos Holdings to install two gas-steam generators, worth EUR 123m, in the TE-TOL co-generation plant. (front page, 8-9)
VEČER
Maribor local government
"Motley coalition": Maribor Mayor Saša Arsenovič signed yesterday a coalition agreement with representatives of nine parties and lists in the city council, with two more potential partners expected to join in. (front page, 2, 8-9)
Trump-Kim meeting
"Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump looking for peace": US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un are expected to meet today in Vietnam's Hanoi, with nuclear and missile disarmament of North Korea topping the agenda. (front page, 5)
Tax changes
"Less personal income tax, higher wage": Under the tax changes planned by the Finance Ministry, the state will take less personal income tax from citizens for wages, holiday allowances and performance bonuses. (front page, 2-3)
