The central commemoration at the Russian Chapel, which was attended alsoby the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev along with two another ministers of the Russian government and more than 100 member delegation during this year's 99th anniversary of the construction of the Chapel took place at Vršič yesterday.

The commemorated event which every year brings together numerous high representatives of the Slovenian and Russian politics, diplomacy, economy, culture and veteran organizations - in commemoration of the Russian prisoners who died tragically following an avalanche when building the Vršič Pass during the first world war in 1916 - was attended by more than a thousand visitors. The attendees were, besides Prime Minister Medvedev and in the presence of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Chairman of the National Assembly of the RS, the President of the National Council of the RS and numerous ministers in the Slovenian government, also addressed by the honorary sponsor of the event, the Prime Minister of the RS, Mr. Miro Cerar, and the former President of the RS, Mr. Milan Kučan, as the honorary member of the Slovenia - Russia Association.

At the invitation of the organizers, Russian Federation Embassy, Kranjska Gora municipality, »Russkiy mir« foundation, and Slovenia-Russia Association, the commemoration was attended by the VZMD President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, who dedicated the social event traditionally following the commemoration at the Russian Chapel also to establishment and reinforcement of the bonds of friendship, culture and business, as well as endeavors regarding the international business-investor programs ofVZMD: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (investo.international), under which the forth year of collaboration is marked also with the sister Russian Investors Association, through active participation at as many as four visits of the members of the Government of the RS and economic delegations to Moscow and Yaroslavl.

At the special invitation from the Turkish Business Angels Association (TBAA), the team of the PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), joined the international delegation of business angels, which visited Albania, Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as a focal part of the sixth tour of the VZMD's international business-investor programs, within five days at the end of May 2015. For this purpose, the team of VZMD.tv / investo.TV produced an exclusive VIDEO REPORT on the intensive events. The business delegation entitled »Access to Finance for Start-ups of South-East Europe« consisted of the President and Vice President of TBAA, a representative of the Istanbul stock exchange, managing director of the Technology Park and the Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Technical University in Istanbul, the President of the Business Incubator LabX, and the President of VZMD and a member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Investors - Better Finance.

Immediately upon arrival in Tirana, the delegation took part in the business breakfast with the Albanian Chamber of Commerce at the Sheraton Hotel, where the representatives of the local business community discussed about the investment climate in Albania. The reception was followed by the meeting with the Vice President of the Turkish Government and diplomatic corps, which was later followed by the reception at the local university, which was also the venue of the round table where the members of delegation presented methods and viewpoints for persuading a business angel to invest in a company.

As a part of the intensive program of the delegation, the VZMD President in Tirana also paid visit to the Summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process, which was visited by the high representatives of 13 countries, EU and OSCE, who addressed crucial issues of the region, among others, the possibilities to strengthen economic cooperation, mutual and foreign investments. On this occasion, Mr. Verbič talked with numerous participants, namely the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania and Turkey, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia and high representatives of the economy and diplomacy, one of them being the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Tirana, His Excellency Bojan Bertoncelj. Having visited headquarters of several companies, the delegation stopped by at the Innovation Center of Tirana, which was the venue of the central event of the international community - Startup Grid. The day ended with the gala dinner at Sofra e Ariut, the famous restaurant in Tirana.

During the business breakfast, the chancellor of the University Marin Barleti and the managing director of the Technological Park of the Technical University in Istanbul signed a memorandum, while the participants discussed about the possibilities of collaboration among Istanbul, Albanian and other regional security stock exchanges. After the visit to the Turkish Embassy, the delegation was received by the Albanian Minister of Innovation. The business lunch at the restaurant of the Sky Tower hotel was followed by the meeting with the Albanian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce, and the round table at the School of Economics in Tirana. The visit to Albania ended with a gala dinner, which was attended by over 50 prominent guests, representatives of the politics, the economy, institutions and diplomacy.

At the crack of dawn on the third day, the delegation set off for Kosovo to participate in the international conference of the Kosovo Business Angel Network (KOSBAN). The introductory speech was delivered by the local Ambassadors of Norway and Turkey, where one of the keynote speakers was the Kosovo Minister of Trade and Industry. On this occasion, KOSBAN also signed important Memorandum of collaboration. Beside high representatives of diplomacy and the economy, the conference was also attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Kosovo, His Excellency Miljan Majhen, who visited the frequented presentation area of VZMD's business-investor programs Invest to Slovenia – investo.si and International Investors` Network – invest-to.net, together with the organizers. The series of events continued at the local Universum College, where the delegation members talked with students about entrepreneurship, innovations and investments as well as potentials and perspectives of Kosovo. The events ended with the five startup pitch presentations from Kosovo and the address of the managing director of the local Innovation Center. The intensive day ended with the gala dinner at the Emirald hotel which, beside 30 prominent guests, was also attended by the local Slovenian Ambassador.

On the fourth day, the delegation headed for Skopje, where the eminent Bushi resort was the venue of the business conference, and thereafter the Memorandum with the government agency for investments »Invest in Macedonia« and the Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia was signed. The events were attended by numerous prominent representatives of the economy, politics and diplomacy who were considerably interested in visiting the presentation area of the VZMD's international business-investor programs. After the business breakfast on the fifth day, the delegation members set off for Tetovo, where the Memorandum of understanding was signed with the local Mayor and the President of the Chamber of Commerce of North-West Macedonia (OEMVP), following the reception organized by the regional business community. Upon signing, a visit was paid to the Technological, industrial and development park of Tetovo (TIDZ) which was presented by the Mayor and the park management.

Therefore, within five days, the business delegation took part in multiple receptions at universities, ministries, innovation centers, business incubators and business breakfasts, lunches and gala dinners, with high representatives of the economy, politics, enterprises and institutions.

The VZMD President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, joined the delegation from the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, immediately after the election to the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF), while the journey from Skopje was continued in Paris, where he traditionally participated in the OECD Forum. The extensive, already sixth this year's tour of the international business-investor programs investo.si and invest-to.net was concluded by the VZMD President in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, by actively participating in the European Commission delegation »Mission for Growth«.

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Eindhoven, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Praia, Pristina, Reykjavik, Skopje, Tehran, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden in Zagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

The international delegation of the European Commission called »Mission for Growth« visited Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, last week. A member of delegation was also the Slovenian representative – President of the PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), Mr. Kristjan Verbič. The participants of the delegation were also 59 European companies and institutions who met with over 400 entrepreneurs and business people from Taiwan.

The Taipei World Trade Center, a complex of one of the highest skyscrapers in the world, the Taipei 101, was the venue of the high visibility international conference on Thursday »How to do business in Taiwan and in the EU? Opportunities, challenges and success stories«.

The introductory speech was delivered by the local Minister of the National Development Council, Duh Tyzz-Jiu, which was followed by signing of the Agreement on Cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (Enterprise Europe Network). The Agreement was signed by the leader of the »Mission for Growth«delegation, Director-General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General at the European Commission, Mr. Daniel Calleja, and the President of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Mr. Francis Liang (in the photo with Mr. Verbič).

The conference was followed by the organized business meetings of representatives of institutions and companies, where the VZMD President talked with the TAITRA President, the lead of the European Economic and Trade Office, Mr. Frederic Laplanche, and the President of the European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, Mr. Bernard Barkey. The event was concluded with the gala dinner hosted by the local deputy Minister of the Economy Shih-Chao Cho and the TAITRA President.

On Friday, the members of the delegation visited the Neihu Technology Park and Delta technology corporation, and thereafter they visited the Computex Taipei 2015, which is the largest Asian fair related to the information and communication technologies.

As a part of the sixth this year's tour of the international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net) prior to the trip to Taipei, the President of VZMD visited also Paris, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Baku and Madrid.

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Eindhoven, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Praia, Pristina, Reykjavik, Skopje, Tehran, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden in Zagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

In Paris, yesterday marked the beginning of the OECD Forum 2015, whose this year's theme is »Investing in the Future: People, Planet, Prosperity«. The forum addressing key issues such as investment, inclusive growth, climate and sustainable development goals has been attended by high representatives of countries, institutions, the economy and diplomacy.

At the focal round table entitled »Unlocking Investment«, which followed the opening, the president of VZMD - PanSlovenian Shareholders` Association and Board member of the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users (Better Finance), Mr. Kristjan Verbič, as the first discussant, posed a question for the President of the Supervisory Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), Ms. Danièle Nouy, and underlined the importance of trust, primarily of individual investors, and kindly asked for the clarification of and opinion on the extremely different criteria for performing stress tests which significantly affect investors, and which, in Slovenia, brought about highly contentious expropriations. (you can view the question and answer by clicking on the link starting from 59:29 minute onwards: http://webcastcdn.viewontv.com/client/oecd/forum2015/02062015_blue.html)  

The focal panel was also attended by Mr. Ronald Cohen, President of the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce, Arda Ermut, President of the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT), İlhami Koç, Vice President of Isbank, Eric Labaye, President of  McKinsey Global Institute, Richard Trumka, Thierry de Longuemar, Vice President of Finance and Risk Management, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and President of Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC), who also commented on the question posed by Mr. Verbič. The latter has participated in the OECD Forum for the fourth time consecutively where he also posed a weighty question regarding the expropriated bondholders and shareholders of the Slovenian banks for the Forum keynote speaker and the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Ms. Alenka Bratušek last year.

Following the yesterday's opening address by the representative of the United Nations, Ms. Helen Clark, OECD Secretary General, Ms. Angela Gurríe and the French Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ms. Ségolène Royal, own opinions and views will be delivered by 226 speakers out of which 19 ministers, prime ministers and presidents of countries such as Czech Republic, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in two days.

Under the sixth this year's tour of the international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net) Mr. Verbič arrived in Paris from Skopje, where he participated in the international delegation of the business delegation of business angles, who visited Albania, Kosovo and FYR Macedonia, but the road will take him to Taipei where he will participate in the delegation of the European Commission's Mission for Growth.

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Eindhoven, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Praia, Pristina, Reykjavik, Skopje, Tehran, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden in Zagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

SEOnet.ljse.si, 22.05.2015

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Following successful visit to Madrid and the international conferences of IFLN and AEMEC, the PanSlovenian Investors' & Shareholders` Association (VZMD) President, Kristjan Verbič, arrived to the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. There he will, at the invitation of the President and Vice President of the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF), Ismail Safi and Chingiz Abdullayev, take part in the 14th session of the General Meeting and the Board of Directors of the influential international organization that brings together 27 countries.

Following the evening reception and gala dinner, the participants of the General Assembly will be, among others, addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, thereafter numerous issues related to the Black and Caspian Sea region will be addressed. Among other things, the subject of discussions will be the economic, social and political implications of permanent conflicts in the region and possibilities for their resolving. The participants will touch upon collaboration possibilities with other regions, countries and continents, where the high representatives of individual countries will participate.

This visit of the VZMD President takes place in the context of  the sixth this year's  tour of the international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net) which is thus already the second visit to Baku, following participation in the strong economic delegation, during the visit of Janeza Janša, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, and Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Radovan Žerjav, at the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, dr. Ilham Aliyev, in 2013 – click on the image and watch the EXCLUSIVE VIDEO.

On Monday, Casa America, the renowned Madrid's palace, was the venue of the official opening of the 4th annual congress of the Spanish Association of Minority Shareholders of Listed Companies (AEMEC) and the 3rd conference of the International Financial Litigation Network (IFLN). At the invitation of organizers, both events were traditionally also attended by the PanSlovenian Investors' & Shareholders' Association (VZMD) President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, which marked the beginning of the this year's sixth tour of the VZMD international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors' Network (invest-to.net). 

To this end, the AEMEC and IFLN organizations designed a joint program, within which they provided countless interesting panels in two days which were attended by over 200 prominent guests, representatives of European institutions and politics, the economy and heads of influential law firms from all over the world. The introductory speech was delivered by the organizer of the event, Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the former European Commissioner, and Mr. Javier Cremades, the President of IFLN, AEMEC Secretary General and co-founder of one of the most influential Spanish law firms Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, and Mr. Daniel Calleja, Director-General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General at the European Commission.

The speakers from Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and USA talked about multiple legal proceedings which they had come up against as investors representatives. On this occasion Mr. Verbič, as a part of the discussion led by the former President of the European Parliament. Mr. Jose Maria Gil Robles, stressed the importance of trust of investors and anew brought attention to the cases of expropriated investors in banks, where the former holders of bonds and shares of Slovenian banks belong. 

Exactly the problems of expropriated and double-crossed bank shareholders have recently reinforced, albeit effective, long-standing collaboration between VZMD and AEMEC and IFLN. The VZMD President has, on arguable grounds, pointed out the problems of cancellation of shares and bonds already at the international conferences of the World Federation of Investors (WFI) and IFLN in 2013, when visiting the Spanish Parliament and the Central Bank, at the last year's IFLN conference in New York he exhibited the activities related to investors expropriations and which have already been initiated and are being planned by the VZMD.

The conference attendees also discussed about new raising capital models such as "crowdfunding" as well as new communication models, connections and relationships among individual investors. The VZMD President joined the working lunch at the headquarters of Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo,  where the Executive Board of IFLN mapped out the strategy of future activities. In the evening, the most prominent guests and participants headed for the renown palace El Escorial for informal gathering. The high visibility conference ended last night, with the prize-awarding ceremony for the »Shareholders-friendly Award«, which was received by the Repsol company. Such awards were also received by the two Slovenian companies in 2011 and 2012 (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO from the Ljubljana Skyscraper (Nebotičnik) and EXCLUSIVE VIDEO from the Ljubljana Castle). The award "Best initiative for the Minority, for the politic involvement with the shareholders" was received by Iberdrola company, whereas the special academic award was received by prof. Gaudencio Esteban from the University of Madrid.

Following the visit to Madrid Mr. Verbič is setting off for Baku, where he will, at the invitation of the organizers, attend the 14th session of the General meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea(BSCSIF). 

Last week, Brussels was the venue of the international conference of the European Federation of Investors and Financial Service users - Better Finance, entitled»A Capital Markets Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens«. As part of the 5th this year's tour of the international business-investor programs of VZMD: Invest to Slovenia and International Investors` Network, the high visibility conference was also attended by the President of VZMD, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, together with the team of VZMD.tv / investo.TV, which produced the OFFICIAL VIDEO COVERAGE of the conference in English as well as the VIDEO IMPRESSION in Slovenian.

VZMD has been very seriously pointing out that to a long series of already known and disclosed facts, which expressly prove the lies in the claims made by the Bank of Slovenia, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia on the necessity of expropriations of shareholders and holders of hybrid and subordinated bonds of NLB, NKBM, Abanka, Banka Celje, Probanka and Factor banka, this type of new facts have been constantly attached.

Over the last few months, VZMD has - following the publication of results of the stress test of the European Central Bank (ECB) which NLB and NKBM failed, which, according to the claims of the Bank of Slovenia, was supposed to be the "proof" of the necessity of the expropriation of their private owners and subordinate creditors one year before - cautioned to extremely unrealistic pessimistic assumptions and forecasts applied in the tests of the two banks. Now that NLB and NKBM have published their revised annual reports for 2014, it has been become indisputably provable that it was not only forecasts of macroeconomic indicators that were downright unrealistic, but also the forecasts of capital adequacy of banks! In order for banks to pass or fail a stress test, it was pivotal for the ECB to use forecasts of the movements in the common equity tier ratio (CET1) of a bank, and to what extent the actual value (acknowledged by auditors) of CET1 at NLB and NKBM exceeds the forecast applied in the stress test, is summarized in the following table:

¹ www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/aggregatereportonthecomprehensiveassessment201410.en.pdf, str. 153
² www.nlb.si/nlb/nlb-portal/slo/o-banki/vlagatelji/financna-porocila/letno_porocilo_2014.pdf, str. 45
³ www.nkbm.si/downloadfile.ashx?fileid=5418, str. 9

At the same time, April was the month of repeated corroboration of the fact, which was frequently pointed out by VZMD, whereby at the request of the European Commission (EC), also after August 2013, according to claims of the Banks of Slovenia, Ministry of Finance and Government of the Republic of Slovenia the cancellation of shares and subordinated bonds was supposedly a necessary prerequisite for the state-aided recapitalization of a bank, that EC has never required such cancellation from other countries and will not do so in the future

VZMD has been repeatedly pointing out, that EC had never required any intervention regarding subordinated bonds when on September 3, 2013, the Republic of Austria was issued a permission for the state aidto the Hypo Group Alpe Adria bank 
(http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-811_en.htm), neither did it do so on November 27, 2013, when the Republic of Italy was issued a permission for the state aid to the Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1174_en.htm).  Nevertheless, VZMD is now also cautioning that EC did not require so either on April 9 this year, when the Republic of Ireland was issued a permission for the state aid to the Permanent TSB bank (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4755_en.htm); as this bank's shares continue to be traded with (http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=ILB:ISE) as well as their subordinated bonds
(www.ise.ie/Market-Data-Announcements/Debt/Individual-Debt-Instrument-Data/ShowSecTranche/?refNo=3931&trancheID=55536).

Therefore, VZMD would like to call upon the Bank of Slovenia, Ministry of Finance and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia again to hold back misleading and obscuring practices and to publicly state that the empirical evidence and the actual state of affairs already a while ago unequivocally proved the uniqueness of the measures of expropriation of shareholders and holders of hybrid and subordinated bonds conducted in NLB, NKBM, Abanka, Banka Celje, Probanka and Factor banka, and to enter into a constructive dialogue with all aggrieved parties

The annual congress of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) in Eindhoven - by invitation of Ms. Candace Johnson, the EBAN President, and Mr. Baybars Altuntas, the Vice President – is for the next two days the destination of the President of VZMD, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, who yesterday arrived there from Brussels. In addition to the congress attended by over 300 business people, investors and representatives of the financial industry, specifically the start-up capital, from all over the world, the gala dinner and reception was taking place for the invitees where EBAN 2015 prizes have been awarded. This three-day congress is, however, focusing on creating, financing and completing global success stories in the region of Europe, Middle East and Africa.

As part of the fifth this year's tour of the international business-investor programs of VZMD: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net), the VZMD President, as a member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of FinancialServices Users (Better Finance), in Brussels took part beforehand in the international conference »A Capital Markets Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens«, and thereafter also in the »CEO Summit«of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) entitled »Capital Markets Union: How can exchanges contribute?«.

This conference organized by Better Finance which addressed the issue - by all means also applicable to the circumstances in the Republic of Slovenia - how to attract savings to capital markets and real investments, was attended by numerous prominent guests, among others members of the European Parliament , representatives of the European Commission and influential international associations. One of the round tables was the place where the members of the European Parliament: Philippe de Backer (ALDE), Markus Ferber (EPP), Elisa Ferreira (S&D), Sven Giegold (European Greens) and Morten Messerschmidt (ECR) expressed their viewpoints, the participants were addressed by Mr. Jonathan Hill, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (talking to Mr. Verbič in the photo).

The numerous prominent guests participated both in the conference and the evening's reception of the Federation of European Securities Exchange, among others the members of the European Parliament: Markus Ferber, Othmar Karas, Georgios Kyrtsos, Petr Jezek, Michael Theurer, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Beatrix von Storch, representatives of stock exchanges Athens Exchange Group, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Budapest Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, Euronext, Irish Stock Exchange, London Metal Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Oslo Stock Exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, Vienna Stock Exchange in Warsaw Stock Exchange, as well as representatives of the organizations Better Finance, European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), EuropeanIssuers, European Federation of Accountants and many others.

Nevertheless, Mr. Verbič was actively engaged in the Executive Board Meeting and the General Meeting of Better Finance, during the two-day trip in Brussels, but before that he had paid visit to the headquarters of Better Finance and met at the working lunch with its managing director, Mr. Guillaume Prache, with whom he talked also about the international dimension of efforts of VZMD to protect the rights and interests of the expropriated investors in Slovenian banks which appeared on the very same day in the official news of the Brussels Federation.

The event in Brussels was also followed by the team of VZMD.tv / investo.TV, which will produce the exclusive news coverage (like the VIDEO last year and years before).

As always at these events, the efficient presentation of companies, institutions and investment projects included in  investo.si and investo.international was properly arranged. 

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougu, Paris, Piran, Praja, Reykjavik, Tehran, Tokio, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden and Zagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

If you would like to take part in our events and activities, you are kindly invited to contact the coordinator of the program investo.si at VZMD by phone at 031 770 771 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

On Friday, April 17, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (GZS) with the support of SPIRIT Slovenia hosted a presentation of business opportunities and events on the occasion of active participation and presence at the EXPO Milano 2015 World's Fair. Over the six-month period - from May 1 to October 31 - the Italian city of Milan will be the venue of the renowned World's Fair, where more than 140 participating countries will have an opportunity to exchange ideas and collective solutions, this time focusing on ecology and food. EXPO Milano is estimated to be visited by more than 20 million visitors from all over the world, who may visit 54 separate pavilions of individual countries on the 1.1 million square meters of the exhibition areas, among them also the prominent separate pavilion of Slovenia which will take the center stage especially on June 19 when the Slovenian national day will take place.

The attendees of the Friday's presentation were addressed by the Minister of Economic Development and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr. Zdravko Počivalšek, and GZS President, Mr. Samo Hribar Milič, whereby numerous possibilities of collaboration, several economic delegations as well as opportunities for Slovenian companies and institutions were also presented.

Within the scope of the international business-investor programs Invest to Slovenia – investo.si and International Investors' Network – invest-to.net the event was also visited by the President of the PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), Mr. Kristjan Verbič. VZMD welcomes the ambitious plans of Slovenia, which will be presented at the 800 square meter sized separate pavilion of modern design and entirely produced by Slovenian companies.

The upcoming Expo is all the more interesting for Slovenian companies, tourism and economy in general, because will be taking place in the immediate vicinity and neighborhood of Slovenia, and in the pavilion, along with the dynamic program and offer, it will be possible to hold meetings, including in a dedicated VIP area. However, more than 20,000 companies have already registered on the event's electronic platform, which is why VZMD appeals to all the interested to take advantage of the opportunities brought by EXPO Milano 2015.

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougo, Paris, Piran, Praia, Reykjavik, Tehran, Tokio, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden and Zagreb, VZMD's international business-investor programs continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

If you would like to participate in our events and activities please contact the investo.si program coordinator at VZMD by telephone at +386 31 770 771 or e-mail info@investo.si.