$ ROATIA VIENNA, 16 Oct (Hina) - The seminar 'Opportunities For Investment Into Croatia', which was organised by Bank Austria and the Croatian Agency for Investment Promotion (HAPU), gathered the representatives of leading Austrian
companies and banks in Vienna on Thursday.
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$ ROATIA
VIENNA, 16 Oct (Hina) - The seminar 'Opportunities For Investment
Into Croatia', which was organised by Bank Austria and the
Croatian Agency for Investment Promotion (HAPU), gathered the
representatives of leading Austrian companies and banks in Vienna
on Thursday. #L#
Speaking at the seminar about the growing direct
investments in Croatia, Croatian Premier Zlatko Matesa stressed
that Croatia's priorities were the construction of roads, power
production facilities and tourist investments.
Speaking about the results of Croatia's economic policy and
basic economic indicators, Matesa said that Croatia offered
stability.
Economy Minister Nenad Porges spoke about the process of
restructuring and privatisation in Croatia and Croatia's wish to
join Euro-Atlantic institutions, such as the Central European
Free Trade Association (CEFTA) and World Trade Organisation.
The Croatian National Bank governor Marko Skreb spoke about
fundamental macroeconomic indicators, while the president of the
Croatian Agency for Investment Promotion, Vanja Kalogjera,
informed the gathered about opportunities for foreign
investments, which, he said, last year had reached the amount of
almost half a billion US dollars.
According to Kalogjera, today's seminar had gathered some
200 representatives of Bank Austria's most important clients.
Those clients include Siemens, Universale, Bramac, OMV and other
companies which cover different areas ranging from industry,
banking, tourism to construction.
Today's seminar closes Premier Matesa's two-day working
visit to Frankfurt and Vienna. After his talks with the German
and Austrian business people, which was organised by Deutsche
Bank and Bank Austria, Matesa told reporters he was satisfied
with the visit and expressed optimism concerning future
investments in Croatia.
It was expected that new investments from Germany would
amount to almost 600 million German marks, and Austria was also
expected to make new investments in Croatia, Matesa said.
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