05.04.2013
On April 4 2013, the Fourth Northern Dimension Forum was held in St. Petersburg. Over 350 delegates attended the Forum, which was organized by the Northern Dimension Business Council and the Association of European Businesses.
This year’s Forum was devoted to important issues associated with deepening trade and economic cooperation and moving from predominantly trade activity to investment in various sectors of the national economies within the Northern Dimension. Special attention was paid to the regions of the North-Western Federal District of the Russian Federation and neighbouring European regions.
Here are just a few speakers of this successful event: Alexey Mordashov, General Director of JSC "Severstal"; Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council; Mikael Aro, President and CEO, VR-Group, Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council; Aleksey Meshkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation; Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland (1995-2003), Independent consultant, Nord Stream; Andrey Slepnev, Minister for Trade and Member of Board of Eurasian Economic Commission; Peter Balas, Deputy General Director, DG Trade, European Commission; Reiner Hartmann, Chairman of the Board, Association of European Businesses (AEB) and others.