According to many surveys, the biggest concern of the citizens in the region is how to find work or how to keep their jobs and that is the essence of what the politics must deal with , said today in Sarajevo, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Goran Svilanović at the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on “Economic governance and job creation in the EU and the enlargement countries”, organized by the European Parliament and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC).
Svilanović believes that the economy and politicians can help to change things in the region, to ease the burden of private businesses and to make the public sector more efficient.
He stressed that the RCC in the coming period will be engaged in two areas, namely facilitating recognition of professional qualification in the region and liberalization of services trade.
MEP Theodor Dumitru Stolojan said that events such as this conference are extremely important, because all the Balkan countries are characterized with mid-level income, small population and small businesses.
In order for the small Balkan countries to have sustainable development, he added, they must be competitive, and their focus must be on the export.
As the most important guidelines for the Balkan countries he singled out structural reforms of institutions, rule of law, fight against corruption and ensuring the functioning of the labor market, which is the most difficult task.
A representative of the Foreign Trade and Customs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Šemsudin Mehmedović believes that the conference provides a great opportunity to exchange experiences among the parliamentarians in the region, concerning employment opportunities and eliminating obstacles.
He also stressed that this was an opportunity for the legislators in BiH to make a retrospective of existing laws through exchange of experience with parliamentarians in the region.
The two-day conference in Sarajevo was part of the European Parliament Support Program for the parliaments of the countries in the EU accession process.
(Source: Fena)
