International conference
The evening panel was introduced by both Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and the head of the Austrian Federation of Industry, Georg Kapsch, and moderated by Christian Ultsch from Die Presse. The panel included the Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miroslav Lajčák, the Hungarian Minister of State for EU Affairs Enikő Győri, the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Igor Senčar, and representatives from the business and banking sectors, Andrej Mertelj (Datalab, Slovenia) and Andreas Treichl (Erste Bank, Austria). The discussion on this panel extended over the entire range of issues covered by the conference as a whole (‘Achievements, Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead’) from the perspective of acting Ministers and representatives from the business community.