Last year’s winners of the European Cup will not be making it to 2019’s Basketball World Cup in Beijing, as Slovenia lost at home to Turkey, with the final score being 86 to 77. It was the teams fifth consecutive defeat in the competition.
STA, 17 September 2018 - The assembly of the public health insurance company ZZZS okayed on Monday changes to the rights patients enjoy from the mandatory health insurance. The biggest changes to the rules in more than a decade have been in the making since 2014.
Not a revolution, but a renovation.
Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Tuesday, 18 September 2018, as prepared by the STA:
STA, 17 September 2018 - The National Gallery in Ljubljana will mark the first century of its existence with a series of art and music events this week. The main celebration will be held on Wednesday evening, when President Borut Pahor presents the museum with the Golden Order of Merit.
STA, 17 September 2018 – The Chinese firm Hisense, which acquired 95.4% in Gorenje earlier this year, has decided to squeeze out the remaining minority shareholders of the Slovenian household appliance maker. The group will delist Gorenje from the Ljubljana and Warsaw stock exchanges.
STA, 17 September 2018 - Police have launched an investigation after a second group claiming to be a militia published photos of combat training on Facebook just days after the arrest of the leader of a self-proclaimed militia in eastern Slovenia.
With a street festival on Ljubljana’s Slovenska cesta and free buses on Sunday, plus events all over the country.
Her place in the record books is already assured.
STA, 17 September 2018 - Business daily Finance forecasts gloom for crypto firms as it comments on the downfall of Cofound.it, a Slovenian crypto firm that had raised millions with its initial coin offering but has now decided to shut down.
Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Monday, 17 September 2018, as prepared by the STA: