Reform tops agenda at European Economic Congress

Jerzy Buzek at EEC, Monday: photo - PAP/Andrzej Grygiel

The European Economic Congress (EEC) which bills itself as “the single most important economic event held in Central Europe” takes place in southern Poland between 13 and 15 May.

The guest list at the event includes a “manager of a Chinese fund valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, a former US national security advisor to Barack Obama, Minister from Senegal, President of Germany, Prime Minister of Finland and also current Ministers of Economy of Slovakia and Romania, Ministers of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and Namibia and EU Commissioners,” says the EEC's web site.

Former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland's richest man Jan Kulczyk and Poland's deputy prime minister Janusz Piechociński iare are also attending.

Reform is top of the agenda at the conference and Poland's president, Bronislaw Komorowski, said in a letter read out to delegates, Monday morning, that the “European market needs reforms for growth, the building of a single market in services and trade liberalization”.

A concert entitled “The Magic of Victory”, the Silesia Marathon, a golf tournament, the “Modny Śląsk” (Fashionable Silesia) project, music and film at the stylish Rialto cinema-theatre and banquets and numerous business meetings will be accompanying the 5th European Economic Congress.

“From the outset it has been important to us that guests who have come to Silesia to discuss very important economic matters are also able to enjoy themselves and take good memories back home”, says Wojciech Kuśpik, initiator of the congress and President of the PTWP Group. (pg)