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Ministar privrede Kantona Sarajevo Muharem Šabić razgovarao je danas sa izvršnom direktoricom Vijeća stranih investitora (VSI) Sanjom Miovčić o saradnji u organizovanju 'Međunarodnog poslovnog foruma 2016 €ť koji će se održati sredinom septembra 2016. godine u Sarajevu. Kako je navela Miovčić, Vijeće stranih investitora zastupa interese stranih kompanija u Bosni i Hercegovini (BiH), a misija mu je zagovaranje uslova za poboljšanje poslovanja u BiH sa ciljem postizanja daljeg ekonomskog razvoja i općeg prosperiteta građana Bosne i Hercegovine.

Sarajevo, 24 February 2016 -FIC members and the Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fadil Novalić, held today a corporate gathering at hotel "Europe" in Sarajevo

Based on the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Federal Government and the FICl in 2011, political actors in the Federation of BiH have been committed to the implementation of the reform process in the areas that are crucial for improvement of business and investment environment in the country.

Sarajevo, 19 February 2016 - The Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH Mirko Šarović and his associates had a meeting with the management of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) led by the Director Gordan Milinić and members of the Steering Board of the Agency.

The meeting discussed the future cooperation between the Ministry and the FIPA in creating a favourable business environment to attract foreign investment.

The organizer of the Round Table was the Government of the Federation of BiH and civil society organizations also participated, whose work was directed on the social and economic issues. The intention of the Government of FBiH was to thus improve an open and continuous dialogue for the purpose of exchanging experiences and ideas for possible solutions. The Round Table was organized as the first in a series of consultative events of the governmental and the non-governmental sector within the realization of the Reform Agenda.

Sarajevo, 11 February 2016 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development launched its Transition Report 2015-16 'Rebalancing Finance €ť in Sarajevo. The Report outlines some of the key developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past year and discusses the transition challenges ahead - for BiH and for the wider region.

During the event two of the Report`s editors, Peter Sanfey (Deputy Director for Country Economics and Policy) and Alexander Plekhanov (Lead Economist) presented an overview of the main findings of the Report , and Tamir Mostarac, Principal Banker, EBRD Bosnia and Herzegovina, presented an overview of the Bank`s investment results and wider strategy in the country.

Sarajevo, 4. january 2016. godine - At its last session in 2015, the FIC Board of Directors appointed a new Executive Director, Sanja Miovčić.

Sanja Miovčić took office on 1st January 2016, taking over the position of the long-standing Executive Director Ms. Bojana Škrobić-Omerović. She has more then 15 years of professional experience in numerous international companies and organizations. Before joining the FIC she worked as a Business Development & Marketing Coordinator at the respectable Austrian consulting company Wolf Theiss.

Bureaucracy, obtaining permits and corruption are obstacles to investment in BiH

Sarajevo, 17 december 2015 - In HUB 387 (Bosmal City Center) in Sarajevo was presented the first report "FIC Business Barometer".

'FIC Business Barometer €ť report is a milestone activity of the Foreign Investors Council of BiH (FIC BiH) implemented in cooperation with the Growth-Oriented Local Development (GOLD) Project, which is funded jointly by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

On October 29, 2015 in Sarajevo - FIC BiH held a meeting of Cooperation Council (CC). The topic of this meeting was NEW FBiH Labour Law implementation - FIC recommendations to Governments. The guest speaker at the meeting was Ms. Emina Sarac, Head of Human Resources at Raiffeisen bank d.d. BiH and FIC Labour Law working group Team leader.

At the summer corporate meeting which was organised by German Chamber of Commerce in BiH (AHK) and the Foreign Investors Council in BiH on June 12, 2015 in Sarajevo, at the restaurant "4 sobe gospođe Safije", failure to sign the reform agenda was deprecated, in which the political actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina previously committed as part of the German-British initiative.

The representatives of the business community and the public sector institutions - ministers of finance, trade, economy, and directors of taxation and customs administrations from 7 regional economies, gathered on April 28th in Sarajevo at the first regional conference titled Combating Shadow Economy: A Necessity for Investments in South East Europe.