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In the first half-year of 2017 Baden-Württemberg’s exports increases about 5 %. The USA, France and Switzerland remain the most important trading partner. In total Baden-Württemberg exported goods worth 100 billion euros.

Baden-Württemberg keeps the top rating Aaa. The rating agency Moody’s provides a strong future prospect. Minister of Finance Edith Sitzmann sees a confirmation of the budgetary policy.

Baden-Württemberg invested 4.91% (21.5 billion euros) of GDP in research and development in 2014. This amount secures the top position among the German states, according to the Cologne Institute for Economic Research.

February shows to have been a good month for the labour market in the German Southwest. The number of unemployed inhabitants decreased about 3.5 % in comparison to February 2016. The unemployment rate is 3.8 % now. Meanwhile the number of vacancies increased.

Baden-Württemberg is as popular as never before: The state attracted 449 foreign investment projects.

Baden-Württemberg is the most successful federal state in the allocation of the consolidator grants of the European Research Council (ERC) in the general EU program for research and innovation – "Horizont 2020" (horizon 2020). 27 percent of all subsidies go to the southwest, these are 13 of a total of 48 grants going to Germany.

During first visits in Brussels, Minister for Economic Affairs Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut supported Baden-Württemberg future topics such as electromobility and automated driving as well as digitalization in the industry and other sectors of the economy and pleaded for a close interaction of the economic policy of the southwest with the politics of the EU.

Baden-Württemberg is closing the white spots in the broadband extension piece by piece. Where the private telecommunication companies do not build up or do not operate any fast internet, the state subsidizes the planning and the development of local network infrastructures. This way, we will contribute decisively to the location quality", Minister of Digitalization Thomas Strobl said on the occasion of the handover of 72 broadband grants amounting to a total of 12.3 million euros for 30…

In 2015, the German federal government and the federal states subsidized the development of the underground, city railway and interurban trains in Baden-Württemberg with 152 million euros. In 2015, the southwest also benefited more than average from the available federal government funds in comparison with other federal states and illustrates this way that there is still a high requirement for investment in great infrastructure projects of local public transport.

The Minister for economy, work and housing construction, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, drew a positive upshot on the occasion of her first 100 days in office: "The Ministry for Economic Affairs is the future department in the state." With the emphases of keeping skilled workers in the region, economy 4.0, innovation politics and pioneering spirit, the ministry was responsible for the great future topics that will be decisive for the prosperity and the competitive capacity of our state in the coming…