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21 06 2007 Over thirty economic experts and journalists attended a panel discussion Tuesday, June 19 on foreign investments in the Balkans, organised in Sarajevo by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.
Apart
from discussing the current good and bad practises in this field, the
conference, under the name of “Countries of the Region: Competitors or Allies in
Investments”, sought to improve dialogue between regional economic and
investment experts and the media.
Five
journalists from the region and five from
Bosnia
and Herzegovina
had an opportunity to speak with leading names in the business and investment
sector as well as with representatives of the country’s two stock
exchanges.
The
first part of the conference looked into the stock exchanges in the region and
their stimulation of foreign investments.
Panelists
were Almir Mirica and Darko Lakic of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange and Banja Luka
Stock Exchange, respectively, Almir Begic, an investment consultant, and Ahmed
Hodzic of FIMA International Investment Company.
Panelists
agreed that local investors lost out during early stages of investment in listed
stocks mainly due to lack of understanding and education about this
field.
Mr.
Begic added that currently many foreign investors in the stock exchanges are
speculative investors and that the two exchanges have to work on attracting
serious long-term foreign buyers.
Asked
if there was any movement on the initiative to merge the two stock exchanges,
Mr. Hodzic said that such issues would be out of the question for as long as
political interests outweigh economic interests.
The
second panel at the conference looked into regional cooperation needed for the
growth of Balkan economies. Speakers included Maida Becirovic, FIPA, Haris
Mesinovic, World Bank, Nermin Zukic, FIC, and Prof. Dr. Anto Domazet, Economic
Institute, Economic Faculty, Sarajevo.
The
discussion revealed a number of fields in which the countries of the region can
cooperate, including free trade, EU accession, and the development of
infrastructure.
“We
should cooperate as much as possible and compete only when necessary,” said
Professor Domazet.
Organisation
of the conference was supported by the Foreign Investments Promotion Agency of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, FIPA.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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