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The European Business Summit really means triple added value to its participants: congress, exhibition and networking.
After a very successful first edition in June 2000, I am pleased to announce that the second European Business Summit will take place in BrusselsExpo from 6 to 8 June 2002.
I am convinced that the theme of the second European Business Summit "Entrepreneurship and sustainable development in an enlarged Europe" will attract a large audience from the political and economic world and from civil society for a dialogue on a better and wider Europe.
The second European Business Summit gives a special platform to candidate countries. While enlargement will be the horizontal theme of all panel discussions, every candidate country is also given the opportunity to present its economic climate and investment opportunities during a special presentation.
Taking place only a few months before the Johannesburg United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development, the European Business Summit wants to explain and explore how the business world is contributing to sustainable development.
The first European Business Summit has proven that the many opportunities for networking mean a real added value for its participants. In order to further improve and stimulate networking, the second European Business Summit will create an "Exhibition & Networking Village": the place in the very heart of the Congress Center for building new contacts and renewing old ones.
I am very much looking forward to welcome you at the second European Business Summit on 6-8 June 2002.
Best regards,
Georges Jacobs,
President of UNICE
Enlargement is a win-win situation for both sides: EU countries and candidate countries as well. The business community is a strong supporter of widening the EU because it understands the enormous opportunity of enlargement.
Günter Verheugen at an FEB Congress on Enlargement
13 September 2001
The shift to self-regulation and co-regulation can however only be achieved by far-sighted and responsible enterprises, responding to the demands of Europes citizens - as workers, as consumers, as investors, as inhabitants of their region and country, of Europe and the World. This kind of corporate responsibility will benefit business in two ways. First, negotiation will take the place of conflict. Secondly, it will facilitate the flow of information, avoiding costly errors and putting research and innovation on the right track. The concept of corporate responsibility is not just a new and
fashionable piece of jargon. Todays responsible companies will be tomorrows profitable companies.
Romano Prodi at the first European Business Summit
10 June 2000
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