Economic and Security Monitoring
PEI especially monitors economic development in these areas:
- The Baltic Sea region: The quarterly discussion forum Baltic Rim Economies (BRE) focuses on the development of the Baltic Sea region. In BRE, high-level public and corporate decision makers, representatives of academia and several other experts participate.
- Russian regions and regional centres as well as European emerging markets: for these markets, PEI provides visual information packages with economic information in a nutshell. The packages are mainly aimed at foreign investors and international companies.
- International operations of Russian firms: Due to increased significance of Russian companies in Finland, the Pan-European Institute follows international operations of Russian firms and their impact on Finnish business.
Through a partnership with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, PEI has monitored the security development (2010-2011) in Europe. The regions covered in this biannual review are the Western CIS (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus), the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
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Famous quotes containing the words economic and/or security:
“The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.”
—Dixie Lee Ray (b. 1924)
“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)