Round Table Event: Global Competition Challenges Facing the Single Market and its Implications for the Western Balkans will be organized at the Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, on June 3, 2022 at 11 am. 

Speakers for this event will be: Mojmir Mrak, Srđan Redžepagić, Nikoleta Đukanović, Danijela Jaćimović, Stevan Đurić

Moderator is: Nikola Milović

Besides the speakers, government officials, representatives of political parties, NVOs and diplomats will also take part in the event.

The aim of the round table discussion is to start debate and examine potential solutions and policies which can support the region in achieving these goals.  At the same time, the event should also start a debate about how to turn the consequences and disruptions of Covid-19 into potential opportunities for the business sector in the Western Balkans Would it result in a new positioning of the region’s companies in the EU’s new supply chains, that could be mutually beneficial for the region and the EU? On the other hand, the region’s economic involvement and engagement could also reduce the EU’s dependence on suppliers from Asia, and provide a stable supply chain that would reduce the damaging effects of any future crisis.

The round table event will try to address the following questions:

• How might the economic criteria, as an integral part of the “fundamentals’ cluster”, speed up the EU accession negotiations in the region?
• The challenges and opportunities for the Western Balkans that have emerged from the COVID crisis
• Is it true that foreign investors and capital are still the main drivers of the changes and growth in the region in the post Covid landscape?
• Are political reforms essential for the further (economic) development of the region?
• How can we deal with unemployment in the post Covid world, particularly in relation to youth unemployment?

 You can see the full agenda and participants' biographies HERE.