“Analitika” conducted a quantitative survey with 50 export-oriented companies on the benefits and expectations of the Open Balkans initiative.
According to the research findings, a large percentage of companies believe that the Open Balkans initiative is of great importance to them because of the opportunities to improve operations and achieve greater growth of the company. A high 96.4% of the respondents said that this initiative would open new opportunities for their company, as opposed to only 3.6% who think the opposite.
Below we present to you part of the research findings and the entire research report is available at the following LINK.
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The research was conducted within the project “ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS – mini-Schengen, regional economic cooperation and common regional market – mapping progress – an opportunity to bring North Macedonia closer to the EU internal market”, implemented by Analitika- Skopje with the support of the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia.
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2 February 2022