Participation at Meeting of EBCAM Hellenic Presidency June 2009

Participation at Meeting of EBCAM Hellenic Presidency June 2009

The CCG 1972 wishes to congratulate EBCAM on a highly successful meeting in Athens.

Deputy Minister M. Varvitsiotis addresses the participants at the Yacht Club

Prof. Plutarchos Sakellaris, Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), gave an impressing analysis of the current economic situation and the perspectives for enhanced European-African cooperation in trade, economics and development, based on his experiences with EIB projects in Africa and the Mediterranean.

To read the speech of Professor Sakellaris download here

EIB
One of EIB's instruments, the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP), has become the key player in this region.

With more than 8,5 billion € invested during the last 6 years in the nine partner countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranen, the Fund has been focussing on projects that support the development of the privatre sector and the creation of an investment-friendly environment.

EBCAM Hellenic Presidency
Under a yearly rotating chairmanship, Greece, represented by the Hellenic African Chamber of Commerce (HACCD) under its President Mr. Sotiris Mousouris, has taken over the EBCAM Presidency from 1 July 2009

ebcam_sm Former HACCD Secretary General and newly appointed EBCAM Vice-President Eleni Vassou, at the same time member of the Board of Directors of the CCG 1972, will assure that the close and friendly links between EBCAM, HACCD and the CCG will be maintained and further enlarged.

It was in this spirit that Mrs Katerina Kalogeropoulos Armenakis, Honorary Consul General of Ethiopia and President of the CCG 1972, hosted an ad hoc luncheon for the participants of the Athens meeting at her residence.

The EBCAM Presidency provides the active and enterprising business community of Greece with a unique opportunity to play a central role in African-European commercial relations, benefitting from various EU-sponsored programmes under the Barcelona Process, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and the newly established Mediterranean Union.

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