{"id":8000005,"date":"2004-04-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/?p=8000005"},"modified":"2004-04-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T10:00:00","slug":"economics-ministers-says-cutting-red-tape-is-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/economics-ministers-says-cutting-red-tape-is-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Ministers Says Cutting Red Tape Is Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p>The priorities of the Economics Ministry for the remaining six months of its term include the prompt adoption of legislation on foreign direct investment, helping companies go global and the rapid implementation of a programme to cut red tape, Economics Minister Matej Lahovnik told the press on Wednesday. In his first press conference since taking up the office on 20 April, Lahovnik stressed that the ambitious All-in-One programme of reducing government bureaucracy will require the cooperation of other ministries. &#8220;I believe that I will succeed in making this one of the priorities of the government,&#8221; he said, adding that his &#8220;energy and well-meaning naivety&#8221; should help make this happen. Lahovnik &#8211; who, at 33 years, is the youngest minister in the current government &#8211; announced that he intends to pay attention to the long-term strategy of technological restructuring in the economy . The Bologna declaration of higher education reform and the subsequent restructuring at Slovenian universities should help Slovenia achieve goals in this field. Explaining that investment in research currently amounts to 1.5 percent of GDP, Lahovnik said that the goal is to raise the figure to 3 percent as soon as possible. &#8220;Two-thirds of all money for development would be contributed by business, with the rest coming from he state,&#8221; he explained his vision. &#8220;Slovenia is facing problems that are symptomatic of a post-industrial state. The share of services in the economy is increasing, whereas the share of classical industries is falling. We need to draft a long-term strategy of technological restructuring of the economy for this very reason.&#8221; A directorate for tourism is also to be opened at the ministry, Lahovnik revealed, stressing that the ministry intends to pay greater attention to tourism, which may well prove to be an answer for some of the problems faced by troubled regions. Lahovnik&#8217;s arrival at the ministry is accompanied by some personnel changes, as state secretaries Mateja Mesl and Janez Tr\u010dek are leaving for new jobs. (<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The priorities of the Economics Ministry for the remaining six months of its term include the prompt adoption of legislation on foreign direct investment, helping companies go global and the rapid implementation of a programme to cut red tape, Economics Minister Matej Lahovnik told the press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,46],"tags":[54,57],"class_list":["post-8000005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-archive","tag-alte-website-aacc-or-at","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}