The international delegation of the European Commission called »Mission for Growth« visited Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, last week. A member of delegation was also the Slovenian representative – President of the PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), Mr. Kristjan Verbič. The participants of the delegation were also 59 European companies and institutions who met with over 400 entrepreneurs and business people from Taiwan.

The Taipei World Trade Center, a complex of one of the highest skyscrapers in the world, the Taipei 101, was the venue of the high visibility international conference on Thursday »How to do business in Taiwan and in the EU? Opportunities, challenges and success stories«.

The introductory speech was delivered by the local Minister of the National Development Council, Duh Tyzz-Jiu, which was followed by signing of the Agreement on Cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network  (Enterprise Europe Network). The Agreement was signed by the leader of the »Mission for Growth« delegation, Director-General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General at the European Commission, Mr. Daniel Calleja, and the President of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Mr. Francis Liang (in the photo with Mr. Verbič).

The conference was followed by the organized business meetings of representatives of institutions and companies, where the VZMD President talked with the TAITRA President, the lead of the European Economic and Trade Office, Mr. Frederic Laplanche, and the President of the European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, Mr. Bernard Barkey. The event was concluded with the gala dinner hosted by the local deputy Minister of the Economy Shih-Chao Cho and the TAITRA President.

On Friday, the members of the delegation visited the Neihu Technology Park and Delta technology corporation, and thereafter they visited the Computex Taipei 2015, which is the largest Asian fair related to the information and communication technologies.

As a part of the sixth this year's tour of the international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net) prior to the trip to Taipei, the President of VZMD visited also Paris, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Baku and Madrid.

After fruitful presentations in the past two years in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna, Eindhoven, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Qatar, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Praia, Pristina, Reykjavik, Skopje, Tehran, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden in Zagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.