Business Dimension

On 1-3 April 2019, CEI Secretary General Roberto Antonione and a delegation of the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES), including Alternate Secretary General Antal Nikoletti, Deputy Secretary General Zoran Jovanovic and senior officers, visited Poland and Belarus, and had meetings with high government officials of the two countries.

On 4-6 March, CEI Secretary General Roberto Antonione and a delegation of the CEI-Executive Secretariat - including Deputy Secretary General Nina Kodelja and some senior officers - visited Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and had high-level meetings with government representatives.

About 200 representatives of state organisations, business community and academia from the CEI countries as well as international financial organisations gathered in Minsk on 4 December to attend the CEI Business Forum held in the framework of the CEI Belarusian Presidency.
 
The event was organised by the State Committee on Standardization, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the National Centre for Marketing and Price Study and the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
 

Under the title ”Driving Forces and Perspectives for the Development of the CEI Wood Sector”,  the CEI Business Forum organised under the BiH CEI Presidency, took place in Sarajevo on 16 December. Representatives of several companies and institutions from CEI countries, including the President of the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH and a representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, gathered in order to discuss issues and opportunities for the timber industry in the region.

Under the Macedonian CEI Presidency 2015, the Business Forum on “Promotion of Regional Cooperation for Improving Market Competitiveness of CEI Agricultural and Food Business” was held in Skopje on 26 November 2015. The event gathered more than 90 high-ranking participants from the various CEI Ministries of Agriculture, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises and Embassies in Skopje.

In the framework of the Austrian CEI Presidency 2014 the conference “Vienna Economic Talks - Building Bridges in a Challenging Time” was organised in Vienna, on 28 April 2014.

The event served as a platform for discussing cooperation and synergies between the Vienna Economic Forum (VEF) and the Central European Initiative (CEI), especially in view of providing a contribution to the economic development in the countries of both Organisations.