Promoting regional economic cooperation has been the goal of Vienna Economic Forum since its foundation in 2004, and we are proud that the economic cooperation between entrepreneurs from the member countries of Vienna Economic Forum - Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine - has developed successfully over all these years.

Among the founding members of the Vienna Economic Forum are some of the most renowned Austrian companies and industrialists. The Prime Ministers of the states of the region are, together with the Austrian Federal Chancellor, Members of the Patronage Committee of Vienna Economic Forum. All accredited ambassadors in Austria of the VEF- Members countries take part in the VEF- activities as Members of the Ambassadors Committee. To the organs of Vienna Economic Forum also belong the Honorary Committee and the Cultural Committee of the countries of the region of Vienna Economic Forum.

Vienna Economic Forum, which has been granted the Status of an International Non-governmental Organization and the Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is constantly growing and developing.

Since 2015, Vienna Economic Forum has also been listed in the Transparency Register of the European Parliament and the European Commission.

In all these years, Vienna Economic has remained true to its founding goals:

• To popularize and promote investment opportunities in the region from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.
• To provide impulses and, based on research, the joint projects required in the region for short-term, medium-term and long-term realisation, and promoting their implementation
• Becoming a place of definition, encounter, and of realising the public and private interests in connection with the various projects in the region as part of a united Europe.

These goals incorporate the vision that led to the creation of the VEF in 2004: to follow a strategy that contributes to economic cooperation and development of the VEF member countries as a region that is growing together, a “VEF economic area”!

The implementation of this strategy is always in focus and determines the planning and execution of all the work of the Vienna Economic Forum team over the years!

Further intensification of the contacts of Vienna Economic Forum with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates H.E. Ibrahim S.M. AL Musharrakh

The Secretary General of Vienna Economic Forum Ambassador Dr. Elena KIRTCHEVA on 19 October 2020 invited the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Austria, H.E. Mr. Ibrahim S.M. AL MUSHARRAKH, to meet and exchange ideas with the partners in the Law Firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Dr. Willibald PLESSER and Dr. Stephan PACHINGER, Member of the VEF Board.

In a friendly and open atmosphere, very interesting potential opportunities for future cooperation were discussed.

The economic and social development of the United Arab Emirates is highly valued by many of the Vienna Economic Forum members and is a good prerequisite for the geographical expansion of the VEF activities. 

Vienna Economic Forum is proud to annonce the forthcoming

17^th VIENNA ECONOMIC FORUM - VIENNA FUTURE DIALOGE 2020