Serbian President Boris Tadic met on Wednesday with a delegation of Serbian and Slovenian businessmen, representatives of a summit of 100 business leaders from the region and supported the region’s business integration, which aims to create new jobs and better business and living conditions, the president’s press service has announced.
The meeting was held at the initiative of the summit’s organizers, the Serbian and Slovenian associations of managers and, as a continuation of a dialogue between business and political leaders of the region started at the summit of 100 business leaders in Arandjelovac in October 2011.
Tadic supported the initiative to continue the economic integration, as well as all projects of cooperation between companies in the region, which will improve competitiveness, products, services and appearances on other markets. The delegation presented Tadic with the first result of the summit, the foundation of a mixed consortium of Slovenian and Serbian construction companies in Belgrade on Wednesday. The consortium was named Feniks.
Feniks initially comprised over 20 companies in order to appear jointly on other markets (mostly Russia, that is generally in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and in Asia). The project was initiated by Serbia’s PSP Farman and Slovenia’s Hidria corporation.
Members of the delegation informed Tadic that a regional management board of the 100 summit will be formed at the Serbian Association of Managers on Thursday to gather the most important companies from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia. They will then choose the president and agree on the board’s goals and responsibility in improving economic relations in the region in the future.
