July 2016

Brookings Institution | July 29, 2016

Smoothing fracking’s boom/bust cycle

Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses a plan to address the economic boom-bust cycle in states that rely heavily on “fracking” and how…

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Brookings Institution | July 25, 2016

Pennsylvania’s metro economies: A 2016 election profile

With the GOP convention now in the electoral rearview mirror, attention is pivoting quickly from Ohio to Pennsylvania as the Democrats kick off their own nominating convention in Philadelphia. Although…

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Slovenia – Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | July 22, 2016

Počivalšek: clear legislation is key for advancing digitalisation of industry

The Ministry of Economic Development and Technology pointed out that digital technologies contribute to approximately one third of the industrial growth in the EU member states; however, in order to…

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Slovenia – Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | July 15, 2016

Meeting of ministers responsible for cohesion policy and economy

After taking over the presidency of the Visegrad Group, Poland hosted a ministerial meeting entitled “Cohesion policy and new European challenges”, where the ministers discussed the field of cohesion as…

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Slovenia – Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | July 6, 2016

Slovenia signs Association Agreement with ESA

The first Cooperation Agreement signed in 2008 was followed by the European Cooperating State Agreement in 2010. The joint review of the 5-year implementation of the ECS Agreement in September…

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Slovenia – Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | July 4, 2016

Eleventh Bled Strategic Forum

Recent developments have undermined the common feeling of security, stability, and freedom. The world has been caught in a maelstrom of geostrategic upheavals, the response to which will significantly affect…

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