Last week marked the beginning of this year's 11 tour of the international business-investor programs of the VZMD: Invest to Slovenia - investo.si & International Investors' Network - invest-to.net, on which the VZMD President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, visited Belgium and France. In Brussels, he attended the event "The Belgium-Slovenia Business Axis: A New Economic Motor to drive Europe's Recovery?", which was attended by over a hundred companies from Slovenia and Belgium and organized by The Ambassadors' Club of Slovenia in Belgium. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Verbič, as a member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Investors` & Financial Services Users (BetterFinance), traditionally took part in the award ceremony "European Small and Mid-Cap Awards 2015", organized by the VZMD's international partners – EuropeanIssuers and the Federation of European Securities Exchange (FESE).

In previous years, the VZMD President was the only representative from Slovenia at the high visibility ceremonies, however, this time it was also attended by Mr. Draško Veselinovič, the new Chairman of the Board of the Slovenian Business and Research Association (SBRA), with whom the VZMD has already successfully collaborated, as well as with the founder of SBRA, Mr. Boris Cizelj (VIDEO about VZMD representatives visiting the SBRA headquarters in Brussels). Mr. Verbič also took this opportunity to talk to the representatives of the awarded companies and influential institutions and associations.

XEROS Technology, a British company which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and develops and produces polymer beads received the award for the category of the "Best new listed company". For the category of the "Most innovative newcomer", the award went to ERYTECH Pharma which develops innovative cancer treatments and is listed on the Euronext Paris. The Norwegian solar power plant construction company SCATEC SOLAR, listed on the Oslo Børs, received an award for the "Most internationally-minded newcomer", and from the Warsaw Stock Exchange it was the company SELVITA, which is engaged in the research and development of revolutionary drugs and treatments, that received the award for the category of the "Rising star".

From Brussles, the VZMD President set off to Paris where he participated in several concluding events United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), and today at the General Meeting and the Executive Board meeting of the BetterFinance, which is also attended by the member of the VZMD Expert Council, Mr. Tadej Kotnik, with whom they more thoroughly outlined the developments and procedures for the prominent international participants related to the scandalous expropriations of shareholders and bondholders of Slovenian banks including recent events before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

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, Doha, Dubai, Vienna, Eindhoven, Grodno, Helsinki, Istanbul, Yaroslavl, Kiev, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Montevideo, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Praja, Pristina, Reykjavik, Skopje, Taipei, Tehran, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Vitebsk, Wiesbaden andZagreb, the international business-investor programs of VZMD continue to provide efficient presence and presentation for its partners on five continents this year as well.

If you would like to take part in our events and activities, you are kindly invited to contact the investo.si program coordinator at VZMD by phone +386 31 770 771 or e-mail info@inves>to.si.