Večer

Ljubljana – The government’s decision to rescind the Boxer defence deal was not a good one, says Večer on Saturday, noting that Slovenia does not have a long-term strategic reflection on the development of the armed forces.

Maribor – A 20-year-old woman is fighting for her life in hospital after a brutal attack by a 22-year-old man in the Maribor Park on Saturday night left her with life threatening injuries to her head and torso.

Maribor police said the suspect had attacked the victim with “a sharp object” over an apparent disagreement.

Maribor – It seems that Maribor Airport will be deserted again in the summer months as charter flights from Italy’s Bolzano, Pisa and Naples have been cancelled over a lack of interest from Italian tourists also due to growing Covid concerns in Italy, the newspaper Večer reported on Thursday.

Ljubljana – As Marta Kos, a vice president of the ruling Freedom Movement, and ex-Information Commissioner Nataša Pirc Musar are considering running for president, Večer wonders whether Slovenia will get its first woman president when incumbent Borut Pahor’s second five-year term runs out in December and he cannot stand for a third term.

Ljubljana – Nearly three years after a brutal attack on a Maribor judge in front of her home, the Slovenj Gradec district court dismissed the case against the chief suspect, the judge’s former partner, due to a lack of evidence, Večer reported on Saturday. The decision is final.

Ljubljana – Coder Matjaž Škorjanc, who has already served his almost five year prison sentence for masterminding a major botnet, will go on trial again after the Constitutional Court annulled the 2013 guilty ruling and two higher-instance court rulings, returning the case to the Maribor District Court for retrial, Večer newspaper reported on Saturday.

Ljubljana – Matej Kavčič, a reporter for the small independent radio station Radio Student, was arrested in Iraq on Sunday, most likely in Baghdad, the newspaper Večer reports on its website. According to the available information, he was arrested by the army, which disputes his status of reporter.

Ljubljana – One week into the election campaign, Slovenia’s political arena, as mapped by opinion polls, is split into several parts, with Janez Janša’s Democrats (SDS) and Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement farthest ahead in the election race, the newspaper Večer says in Saturday’s commentary, headlined Two Horses and the Other Rides of Fate.

Ljubljana – The newspaper Večer comments on the creation of new public higher education and research institutions in Friday’s commentary, expressing concern that degrees could become totally devalued.

Ljubljana – The newspaper Večer comments on the Beijing Olympic Games in Monday’s commentary entitled Chinese Games, saying that they brought the country the necessary infrastructure to become a skiing nation and Covid restrictions worked. Even environmentally, the country has set high standards. But politics remains a problem, the paper says.