Power Breakfast with Minister Nataša Tramišak

American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia (AmCham) organized a power breakfast under the name “Opportunities of the business community to use funds from the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027" and invited Nataša Tramišak, the Minister of Regional Development and European Union Funds, as a guest speaker. During her speech, she highlighted that “ahead of us lies a new financial envelope which we will use to further invest into companies that work towards an increase in productivity, creation of new jobs and adjusting to the green and digital transition that lies ahead of us. Green jobs are jobs of the future.”

Minister Tramišak said that while planning the Multiannual Financial Framework worth €14.4 billion, around €9 billion was allocated for cohesion policy. Within the scope of the green and digital transition, grants will mostly be allocated to the private sector. Around €5 billion is available to businesses and entrepreneurs, and that is why all available means are being used to present to entrepreneurs, businesses, as well as local and regional self-government units all of the possibilities being offered to them in the new seven-year period.

“We have prepared innovations which will, alongside the Competitiveness and Cohesion Program, make regional development more equal. By adding a third program, the Integrated Territorial Program, we will make regional economy sustainable, encourage green transitions of assisted and mountain areas, develop urban areas as regional growth and development drivers, as well as bring about an industrial transition of the regions which will result in an efficient use of the territorial capital by recognizing regional value chains and priority issues of the regions”, added Minister Tramišak.

“AmCham believes that the provided funds will also be a strong incentive for numerous reforms announced by the Government. Besides creating a unique opportunity for growth and development, the funds also present many technical and operational challenges in planning, management and expenditure of European funds for Croatian institutions. That is why we in AmCham wish the Croatian Government and institutions in the system all the luck to manage and benefit from this opportunity as best as they can for the benefit of all of us. We would also like to point out that the engagement of the business community is also important for this process, because of its role as tenderer in public procurement procedures which will help the realization of individual projects”, concluded Ruža Tomić-Fontana, President of AmCham’s Board of Governors.

We thank our member Cromedic Assistance who provided free testing to our guests who did not have an EU digital certificate at the event.

The event gathered 80 representatives of the business community and the media.