Why Poland? - Forum Ekonomiczne

and first of all the record breaking number of guests are the best
confirmation of the success enjoyed by the meeting concept proposed
for years. During conferences like this politicians determine the trust
level to their countries, which is indispensable for business circles to
make investment. Talks about relations between old and new Europe
still attract increasingly wider groups of participants and listeners.
There are more and more people, who want to discuss how to build
the free-market economy faster and more effectively, how to overcome
economic difficulties and avoid mistakes at building a modern state of
law.
Analyzing the image of the Forum in opinion-forming foreign press, one can see how frequently
the Forum is mentioned as an exceptional meeting place of new, Central and Eastern Europe with
the West, as a place where so important issues are discussed as perspectives of the development of
Central European stock exchanges, regional energy security or the possibility to realize investment
in the countries of the region.
Every year the debates of the Forum are reported by the biggest Polish and world’s media. The
last Forum welcomed 500 journalists from all over the world, representing nearly 200 editorial
teams. So important opinion-forming journals as, for example, Le Monde and Le Soir coined for
the Forum the name of the Eastern Davos. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in one of the reports
wrote that in the beginning of the 90’s none could even dream that
Krynica based meetings of the then business and political leaders
from the Eastern block would be mentioned together with the World
Economic Forum in Davos. In the same time in the French journal
Le Monde one could have read that the „Economic Forum in Krynica
has been unquestionably a meeting of economic and political elites
of Central and Eastern Europe” and that „Krynica has become a
symbol of the ambitions of Poland to recognize it as a full-fledged
regional superpower in the new, bigger EU. The event provides the
opportunity for frequent contacts among the representatives of the
business world. According to the American monthly Forbes magazine
the Forum is certainly a good place for establishing contacts and
exchanging ideas, which is every year visited by outstanding
managers and most recognized experts, especially foreign ones.
According to many participants, the meeting in Krynica over
nearly two decades of its history has become one of the most
important business and intellectual events in Europe. The guests in
Krynica have paid more and more attention to the comprehensive
character of the event and a broad view of not only Central Europe,
but also global affairs.