This year’s BSF, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, has again shown that it remains
a common platform that brings together business people, high officials and civil
society representatives, who discuss the most important challenges and
issues of the present as well as our common future, and especially
the future of the EU. Discussions that have been held
or we have witnessed to date have shown that the discussion on
the EU’s future will be an interesting one and that a common denominator
will have to be found among different EU states in relation to how strong
of an EU we want in the future, one that can assume its share of responsibility
for the stability and sustainable development of our global society.