Daily headlines - Wednesday, 22 March

DELO

Slovenia's UN Security Council bid
"Battle against Belarus not won yet": About two months ahead of a vote in the UN on a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 2024 and 2025, Slovenia, which is bidding against Belarus still does not have sufficient support for election. (front page, 2)

Terme Čatež
"Buyers for Terme Čatež": Bojan Petan, the head of the publishing group DZS, is selling spa Terme Čatež to cover the debts from the bank bailout period. (front page, 3)

Kranjska Gora ski lift
"They might lose their money": The Kranjska Gora municipality plans to replace a ski lift and is counting on EUR 8 million in EU grants. But since a construction permit has not been obtained on time, this money could be lost. (front page, 8)

DNEVNIK

Border fence
"Fence project: From the fence to its demolishing": Tomorrow is the deadline for the signing of a contract on tearing down the border fence on the Slovenian-Croatian border. It is not clear yet whether the deal with the company Minis will be signed. (front page, 2-3)

Care homes
"Care home in Poljane to be renovated": A renovation of interior of a care home in Poljane is to cost more than EUR 5.4 million, with the Labour Ministry chipping in almost EUR 4.5 million. (front page, 8)

FINANCE

Housing loans
"Amount of housing loans shrinks for the first times since 2016": Rising interests rates for housing loans seem to have started taking affect, pushing buyers of apartments away. The amount of housing loans shrunk in January for the first times since 2016, show data released by the central bank. (front page, 4)

Pension reform
"What Minister Mesec proposes and what economists propose": Although a blueprint of a new pension reform should have been discussed by the coalition in January, the issue is still not on the agenda. "The chaos in France reminds us that a social consensus must be reached," said GZS executive director Mitja Gorenšček. (front page, 2, 3)

Sales
"How to use buyers' habits to your own advantage in sales": The role of retailers is changing in the face of digitalisation, artificial intelligence, new sales channels, and changed habits of buyers, participants of the 17th Sales Summit hosted by Poslovna Akademija Finance heard. (front page, 6)

VEČER

Spade of the year
The paper announces the 2022 Spade of the Year ceremony, to be held in Maribor on 1 April to hand out the award for the most apt statement capturing the spirit of the previous year.

Robert Golob and Urška Klakočar Zupančič
"How they act and communicate": Prime Minister Robert Golob and Speaker Urška Klakočar Zupančič, top representatives of the executive and legislative branches of power, are breaking some conventions due to their personal traits. (front page, 5)

Heating
"Notably costlier heating of schools and institutions": The prices of heating for the highs schools in Maribor which are provided with heating by energy company Energetika have problems due to high heating costs, which have in some cases gone up by as much 200%. (front page, 17, 22)