"Collaboration between institutions can make all the difference, so it's important to get everyone around the same table to find similarities and differences and try to understand how we can work together," highlighted the Rector of NOVA University Lisbon, João Sàágua, about the meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) - an intergovernmental institution that brings together the countries of the European Union and 15 countries from the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean - which took place throughout the day on Thursday 16 at the NOVA Rectory. 

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Michigan's economy is off to a strong start this year and expected to experience steady job growth, low unemployment and progress toward lower inflation over the next two years, according to University of Michigan economists. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy as a whole offers a slightly noisier picture. It's holding up unexpectedly well in the face of monetary policy tightening by the Federal Reserve, the economists say, but stubborn inflation leads them to suspect a period of slower growth will be necessary to tame it later this year and pave the way for growth to re-accelerate by the end of 2025. The findings come from the state and U.S. economic forecasts released Friday by U-M's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. The team of economic forecasters plan to present them at the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference, a key step of the state's annual budgeting process. Stateside, the economists envision solid success during the next two years: They project about 76,000 job gains in 2024-25 with a jobless rate hovering just below 4% (3.8%-3.9%).  The forecast takes Michigan's payroll job count to 2.