Creating a new generation of entrepreneurship in the region

Next month, on May 25 and 26, the city of Serres in northern Greece, is to shift up a gear for the inaugural Balkans & Black Sea Cooperation Forum, bringing together more than 500 participants from 17 countries of the Balkans and Black Sea area, the first step towards fulfilling the untapped potential for business and trade in the region.

"It aims to be the Davos of this region" according to Siwarde Sap, member of the steering committee of the Forum, referring to the annual economic forum in Switzerland. A joint concept of Mrs. Sap, senior adviser on economic affairs to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Greece, and Giannis Balakakis, chair of the Forum's organizing committee and president of the Geo Routes Cultural Institute, the Forum aims to boost cross-border cooperation and sustainable development in the broader region, encouraging countries at trading best practice...