Agreement for New Age, a summit of business leaders of southeast Europe, was opened Thursday in Arandjelovac. This two-day event will be attended by businessmen from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Over 130 businessmen from the region have so far confirmed their participation.
Serbian President Boris Tadic and Slovenian President Danilo Tirk also participate in the first Summit of Regional Business Leaders.
Boris Tadic assessed that the SEE countries had no other way to achieve their economic interests at the moment but to continue on the path of the EU integrations, relying in that process on both national and regional resources.
Tadic stressed that, in spite of all the weaknesses demonstrated by the EU, there was no better economic model in the modern world.
(Maja Piscevic, Bojan Radun and Boris Tadic)
- We must activate internal - national and regional resources, and all people in the region must make a better connection with each others. With no intention to revive a nostalgia for Yugoslavia, I have to say that our economies are not so distant that we cannot consider a joint appearance in third markets - Tadic said addressing the participants in the panel discussion "Agreement for New Age".
Organizers of this event - Serbian Association of Managers (SAM), Croatian Association of Employers, and the Slovenian Association of Managers, expect from the most influential business leaders of the region to suggest some concrete solutions and take their part of responsibility for strengthening the competitiveness of national economies as well as overall competitive potential of southeast Europe.
The topics for discussion at this summit are: energy and energy efficiency, infrastructure and logistics, and joint appearance in third markets.
Other participants in this summit are representatives of international finance institutions, the World Bank, the IMF, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank.
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