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IWA Analysis: Increased investment and higher taxes: a recipe for growth for Wales?
Joe Rositer unpacks the UK Autumn Budget and what it may mean for the people of Wales.
Port Talbot’s blast furnaces have fallen cold: the major challenges of the European steel industry
Across Europe, steelmakers face falling demand, global competition and the challenges of decarbonisation. Whilst Port Talbot will be switching to less energy-intensive electric arc furnaces, Sanjoy Sen looks at the alternative technologies that are emerging.
60 years of the Secretary of State for Wales
IWA Trustee Ant Pickles reflects on the role of the Secretary of State for Wales on the eve of the post’s 60th anniversary.