“At the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we congratulate the Gibanje Svoboda party as the winner of this year’s parliamentary elections, as well as all other parties that received enough votes to enter parliament. We believe that a stable, solid coalition will be formed very quickly, which will provide the conditions for the transition to a socially-ecological market-oriented economy. This is the only guarantee for achieving sustainable economic growth in the light of all structural and geopolitical challenges, and at the same time it contributes to raising the well-being of our citizens, “says the Director-General of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mag. Aleš Cantarutti.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry expects the coalition to form will listen to the economy and will include defined measures to improve the business environment in the coalition agreement. In doing so, it can propose measures from the Horizons of the Future as a set of substantive improvements. It is a strategic document for Slovenia’s development breakthrough, developed by the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with more than 130 leading Slovenian businesspeople and includes more than 150 concrete measures to make Slovenia’s development transition faster and our economy more competitive.
According to Cantarutti, the future development of Slovenia is seen in the light of the green transition, digitalisation and automation, e-mobility and firm involvement in international value chains, which are being transformed due to current security challenges. Therefore, Cantarutti cites staff training, investment in research and development, stable sources of funding and closer social dialogue as key conditions for the development breakthrough. These, he adds, are topics that the new coalition must address and find solutions to.
The new government must take the most important structural issues seriously while, at the same time, being able to reconcile the interests of the various groups while revitalizing social dialogue and ensuring fiscal sustainability as soon as possible. “We are in a situation where it will be decided whether Slovenia will continue to reduce the gap with the most developed EU countries or we will lose the positive momentum and we will have to face the challenges of ensuring fiscal and social stability,” Cantarutti added.
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