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Business AdvisoryCouncil for Southeast

Europe - BACSEE

TOWARDS A 2020 VISION FOR

SOUTH-EAST EUROPE

view from private sector


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What went wrong and how to fix it:(view from Private part of PPP)

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SEESocio Economic

Settlementson the case of

Post Dayton (cash)cows

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CROATIAN CORPORATION

You have Balkan cows on the Adriatic,

The government decides,

to rename them intoAlpine cows and

starts the initiative

to move the border closer to Alps,where you can sell more milk for less.

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KOSOVAR CORPORATION

You never had cows,

The government suggests you

to call your family membersall over the world and ask them to send

you money to increase and legalizeyour import-export business and

selling milk powder acrossthe new Northern border.

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FYROM CORPORATION

You have 2 Macedonian cows,

The International Greek community

does not allow you to call the cowsMacedonian.

So you decide to name them

Aleksandra and Filipa.

This way everybody understands,

the cows are Macedonian.

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MONTENEGRIAN CORPORATION

You have 2 cows.

Before the independence,

you only had 1 Serbian cow.

One day 2nd cow just appeared on thecoast. People are gossiping, it wasbrought there by offshore super

speed boat. Montenegro, like everyBalkan country, will always have at

least 2 national cows.

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SERBIAN CORPORATION

It seems that the number of Serbiancows is at all times greater by 2 thanthe number of people living in Serbia.

Everyone in Serbia knows, why this is

so. The parliament however decides to

call for elections and let new parliament

to decide, if the new president will beallowed to tell, why this happened.

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SLOVENIAN CORPORATIONBefore 1991 youve had few (cash) cows

And all the milk was sent to Belgrade.

In return you received some yoghurt.

After 1991 you still have some cows, buttoday all the milk goes to Brussels.

In return youve got an alternative toBelgrade and no yoghurt.

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BOSNIAN CORPORATION

Since 1984 youve had

1 Winter Olympic cow.

The cow was among the casualties

in the recent war.

The BAC SEE has initiated the idea togrant you another Winter Olympic cow

for 2022 or 2026.

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SEE priorities and last call

to the political community Balkans like most of the World needs a significant but simple reset.

In the past 10 years, Balkans was heavily divided by EU.

Charismatic leadership is limited to entertainment and sport.

Politics is synonymous for corruption, clienteles, tycoons, new rich.

The borders are the asset for cashing in the differences by those inpower.

The lack of courage of people to say: Enough! will be hit by Afro

Arabic tsunami and religion has nothing to do with it.

The attractive investment cannot be limited by the size of the SEEand motivated investment is the only solution.

The only thing we all agree on is football and basketball.

The rules in sport are set. If you want to play you have to adopt therules.

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SEEs existing problems and threats

identity divisions inefficient levels of regional cooperation

inadequacy of basic infrastructure

lack of transparency in many aspects of public life

more fragmentation and long-term crisis at the EUborder

pure economic losses in the medium to long term

loss of political credibility of EU and the

international community regional instability, crisis in welfare and social

peace

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SEE with or without EU

EU without France is like Balkans without Turkey

EU without Balkans is like France without Turkey

EU without Turkey is like France without Balkans

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BAC in the SEE future

The question concerning the SEE futureshould not evolve around the whether butaround the when

SEE countries need strong and indisputableconfirmation that their efforts are seen towardsthe right path, so that the underlying instabilityfactors are contained and eliminated

Intensive and cohesive efforts for regionalcooperation, political reconciliation andleadership along with economic developmentneed to become more result oriented

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BAC Indicative initiatives

Trade and Transport Facilitation Project (TTFSE) World Bank $72mn program, focusing on border crossing

facilitation, local capacity building, trade volumes, waitingtimes reductions, security of supply chain

Visa liberalization initiative 2001 Thessaloniki Forum

Excellence in Public Administration

Building public administration capacities on projectmanagement approach and PPPs

Bosporus Express

Freight train running from Istanbul to Ljubljana three timesa week within approximately 30 hours

SEE Regional Airline Network


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Food for thought

We are operating in a high-cost neighborhood.Donors should aim to ignore useless conferencebrigades and encourage their competitiveness

The remaining answers must come from withinthe SEE region as a whole

The private sector should be seen as a reliablepartner by donors and governments, and not as a

convenient, ready to be milked Cash-Cow Together we need to award the region with the

motivation and inspiration to believe in new future:

Sarajevo Winter Olympics 2022 or 2026 16


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Do we want to see the obstacles?

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No more thanks

panem et circenses

Samo IVANI, Chairman, BACSEE

www.bacsee.netParis, May 4th, 2011

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