Below is a review of the headlines for Friday, 6 April 2018, as prepared by the STA:
DELO
Personal data abuse
"Personal data wanted goods in Slovenia too": As the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica scandal has raised questions about the potential of massive abuse of personal data, the government adopted amendments to the personal data privacy to prevent the use of databases for political marketing. (front page, page 3)
Asylum legislation
"Who benefits from migrations": With Germany restricting its open-door policy the opposition Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) demands tougher asylum legislation as well. (front page, pages 2, 6)
Catalonia
"Puigdemont released": Catalonia's former President Carles Puigdemont has been released on bail. (front page)
DNEVNIK
Competition watchdog
"Minister hastens up call for director's resignation": Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek has called on Andrej Matvoz to resign as director of the Competition Protection Agency before learning that the Supreme Court has admitted Matvoz's proposal to review the decision rendering his appointment invalid. (front page, page 4)
Ljubljana Ikea store
"Ljubljana: Building site for Ikea almost ready": Buildings on the site of a future Ikea store in Ljubljana have been torn down, but the city is yet to acquire plots to build a road serving the store. (front page)
Tourist tax
"Twice higher tax will make accommodation more expensive": If the proposal will be endorsed by the Ljubljana city council this month, the tourist tax will go up from 1.265 to 2.5 euro. Hoteliers are not happy about the hike. (front page, page 11)
FINANCE
Agriculture law
"Bang against food retailers and suppliers": The new agriculture law brings high fines for retailers and domestic suppliers, but not for foreign ones in what the paper calls bureaucratic hotchpotch. (front page, pages 2, 3)
Slovenia-Russia relations
"Why Slovenians love Russians and Putin and what facts and figures show": The Russians have given Slovenia communism, poverty and Milošević; the EU has given us money, market and freedom. (front page, pages 6-8)
Energy company Petrol
"Petrol: Why is it buying everything and whose takeover target it is?": Energy company Petrol is transforming its business model by venturing into other industries. (front page, pages 4, 5)
VEČER
Facebook data abuse
"The number of those exposed higher by the day": The number of Facebook user accounts exposed to abuse has increased to 87 million. They include 8,000 from Slovenia. (front page, page 3)
Sports betting
"Fierce fight for sport bets": Športna Loterija, the sole provider of sports betting in Slovenia, is putting up strong resistance against market liberalisation, while the sponsor of the bill that would open up the market has achieved for the lower house to take a revote after it was vetoed by the upper house. (front page, pages 2, 3)
Russian spy poisoning
"As MPs talk and fall silent": While the Foreign Policy Committee was struggling over the fallout from the Salisbury nerve agent attack and then again with the Palestine recognition, the parliament building received a visit by US ambassador. (front page, page 4)
