On Friday night, the round table on ownership restructuring and investment opportunities in Poland and Slovenia marked the beginning of the two-day program of the Polish-Slovenian Business Forum in Ljubljana which, under the authority of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was attended by nearly 60-member delegation from Poland.

Besides numerous representatives of companies and institutions from both countries, among whom were also Secretary at the Ministry for the Economic Development and Technology, Mr. Metod Dragonja, CEO of the Bank Assets Management Company BAMC/DUTB, Mr. Torbjorn Mansson and Head of Client Relation Department at the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Mr. Pawel Czupryna, and at the invitation of the organizers the event was also attended by the PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD) President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, who seized the opportunity for the activities related to both the VZMD's international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia – investo.si and International Investors` Network – invest-to.net, and usual efforts of VZMD linked to the scandalous expropriation of Nova KBM shareholders. The latter was touched upon also by the participants of Monday's round table, as Nova KBM's shares also quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and the cancellation directly or indirectly affected also numerous investors and Polish citizens. In this regard, the participants stressed that unfortunately exactly this keeps tarnishing the reputation of Slovenia, the issue of which has ever since cancellation/expropriation been raised also by VZMD.

Yesterday the event went on with the official opening of the business forum, where the attendees were addressed by the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Slovenia, His Excellency Paweł Czerwiński, leader of the Polish delegation and the Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Ms. Katarzyna Kacperczyk, Secretary at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Ms. Dragoljuba Benčina, Secretary at the Ministry for the Economic Development and Technology, Mr. Aleš Cantarutti, and the General Manager of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Mr. Samo Hribar Milič.

In addition to compelling presentations of business environments, opportunities and examples of best practices, the VZMD President was also actively engaged in B2B meetings, where almost 90 participants from both countries got together.

VZMD has so far excellently collaborated with partners from Poland. To name a few, in 2011, VZMD organized the high visibility »Slovenian day at the Warsaw Stock Exchange« (VIDEO), and last year, Mr. Verbič also attended the international conference »Warsaw Capital Market Summit 2014« at the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the conference of the National Bank of Poland and the International Monetary Fund »Building Market Economies in Europe: Lessons and Challenges after 25 Years of Transition«.