TRIESTE, June 6 (Hina) - About 40 percent of companies from north-eastern Italy is ready to expand their business activities to Croatia and Slovenia, which they consider their new "promise lands", while five percent already did so,
these are the results of a research conducted by Fundazione Nordeset in 600 companies in Italy's province of Friuli-Giulia and published in Trieste's daily "Il Picollo" on Wednesday. As much as 39.7 percent of entrepreneurs are ready to partially or entirely transfer their business activities to Slovenia or Croatia, and more than a half, namely 52.8 percent want to open their plants in Istria. Italian entrepreneurs see great possibilities in the process of Croatia's and Slovenia's approaching the European Union - namely lower labour and administration expenses. They expressed hope that a stronger expansion towards the East would be supporte
TRIESTE, June 6 (Hina) - About 40 percent of companies from north-
eastern Italy is ready to expand their business activities to
Croatia and Slovenia, which they consider their new "promise
lands", while five percent already did so, these are the results of
a research conducted by Fundazione Nordeset in 600 companies in
Italy's province of Friuli-Giulia and published in Trieste's daily
"Il Picollo" on Wednesday.
As much as 39.7 percent of entrepreneurs are ready to partially or
entirely transfer their business activities to Slovenia or
Croatia, and more than a half, namely 52.8 percent want to open
their plants in Istria.
Italian entrepreneurs see great possibilities in the process of
Croatia's and Slovenia's approaching the European Union - namely
lower labour and administration expenses. They expressed hope that
a stronger expansion towards the East would be supported on a state
level.
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