Čadež in Trieste: Serbia Is Facing A New Big Investment Cycle

Serbia is facing a new big investment cycle, greening and modernization of technology and economy, said today Marko Čadež, the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia at the Italy-Serbia Business Forum in Trieste and invited Italian businessmen to invest in our country, which thanks to the numerous signed and announced free trade agreements, gives access to markets of almost 2.8 billion consumers.

A year after the business forum of Serbian and Italian businessmen was held in Belgrade, according to Čadež, the results are visible today.
"Since the last forum we organized a year ago, more than 100 companies with a majority Italian or mixed Italian-Serbian capital have been established in Serbia. That's already a big result. In that period, almost all the most important agencies for financing and promoting investments from Italy opened their offices in Belgrade and operated in the entire region from there. This is very important because these agencies were not present at all in our region before" said Čadež.
According to him, more than 200 companies, both Serbian and Italian, are present in Trieste today, and CCIS has organized almost 500 B2B talks. The President of the Chamber says that it is a very important segment of the Forum that businessmen have the opportunity to talk with the ministers present and invited Italian colleagues to use the BizChat Service created by CCIS through which they can get all the necessary information for doing business in Serbia.
He emphasized the importance of Trieste as a port city in Italy in the future, both for the Serbian and the European economy, and said that the two economies ought to work together and use all the potential for cooperation.

He expects as he pointed out, that in six months, a new business forum of Italian and Serbian businessmen will be organized and held in Serbia, thereby continuing the strengthening of cooperation between the two economies.
"Today, we are creating something together that is a new framework for the new European economy." We are not divided into southern, northern, old and new Europe, or into members and those who are not, but into those who have a vision and those who don't," said Čadež.