INTRODUCTION
Dear Members of Vienna Economic Forum!
Ladies and Gentleman!
Allow us this year again to thank you for our good and continuous cooperation in the year 2010 and let us give you a short report of a successful Vienna Economic Forum year.
In 2010 we continued to organise our meetings in the new format Vienna Economic Talks: After the successful VET Meeting in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in 2009, we had the pleasure to organize Vienna Economic Talks – Meet Bosnia and Herzegovina in Vienna in March 2010, with a High Ranking Delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by H.E. Dr. Nikola Spiric, member of the Patrons Committee of Vienna Economic Forum.
In April we held our Vienna Economic Talks – Sofia Meeting: “Environmental Economy for Green Bulgaria”, under the Patronance of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria and Patron of Vienna Economic Forum H.E. Mr. Boyko Borissov, in co-operation with the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria and in co-organization with the European Centre for Environmental Economy (ECEE), with who we signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
We are proud that in June we organized Vienna Economic Talks – Chisinau Meeting, under the patronage of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova and Patron of Vienna Economic Forum, H.E. Mr. Vladimir Filat as a part of the Moldova Business week 2010. We are honored that we had the opportunity to contribute to this high-level event with our specialized meeting and attract the attention of foreign investors, members of Vienna Economic Forum and participants of our Vienna Economic Talks Meeting to the Republic of Moldova.
Our traditional meeting in November, 7th Vienna Economic Forum took place in Raiffeisen Zentral Bank in Vienna, where we had the honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Werner Faymann, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria together with his colleague H.E. Mr. Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine, and H.E. Mr. Vujica Lazovic, Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro, H.E. Mr. Vladimir Peshevski, Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia and H.E. Mr. Traicho Traikov, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism of Bulgaria and many more high representatives from the region.
We want to thank all Prime Ministers of the VEF countries, members of our Patrons Committee, all members of the Ambassadors, Honorary, Governors Committee and Committee of the Presidents of the Economic Chambers of VEF, that all our meetings this year were possible. We are grateful to our Board members and all Members of Vienna Economic Forum for the confidence and contribution to our events, and their active participation and engagement in the region of Vienna Economic Forum. Our meetings have been a great success, and, as always, the number of participants has been increasing. We have welcomed more than 570 participants from 44 countries and from 15 international organizations and we are sure that we will go on with our work to contribute to the economic development and exchange of experience in the region.
Another fruitful year is over and Vienna Economic Forum has continued to be a renowned place of exchange and experience as well as the good mood at the traditional summer party of Vienna Economic Forum.
We are grateful for this to all our Members for a traditional support and trust in the activities of Vienna Economic Forum!
Your
Dr. Erhard Busek Amb. Dr. Elena Kirtcheva
President Secretary General