Izvestia: Crimea opens doors to the European Union
Russia and Slovakia have agreed to establish the European-Crimean chamber of commerce to foster business cooperation between the Black Sea peninsula and the European Union member-states, Izvestia writes. The organization will be headquartered in Bratislava and will be registered with Slovakia’s Interior Ministry, said head of the Krymcongress fund Rustam Muratov, Slovak MP Peter Marcek and businessman Roman Buso, who signed the foundational agreement.
On August 1, the Slovak delegation consisting of 12 members arrived in Crimea and will return on August 3. The signing of the agreement on setting up the European-Crimean chamber of commerce was the key outcome of business meetings during the first day, the paper says.
"This is a historic event. The public organization’s establishment will make it possible to develop trade relations with Crimea, which the Western countries have been trying to isolate over the past years," Marcek said.
The chief of Krymcongress, which promotes economic potential of the region, believes that this initiative will become a tool of cooperation between Crimean entrepreneurs and Europe. Such chambers of commerce will become the gate to the EU for Crimean goods, said Andrei Nazarov, who co-chairs the Yalta International Economic Forum and the Business Russia public organization. "Crimea and Slovakia have a great potential for cooperation, namely in agriculture, tourism, construction and the industrial sector," he said.
Over the past years, Crimea has been becoming more and more attractive for foreign investors, the paper says. This was largely encouraged by the fact that in 2015 a law on the free economic zone regime in Crimea came into effect.
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