The economic and social challenges before the banking sector in Southeastern Europe were among the most debated topics at an international conference organized by the Federation of Financial Trade Unions in Bulgaria and the Economic Policy Institute on 2 July 2010. The event gathered participants from the United Bulgarian Bank (UBB), UniCredit Bulbank and representatives of the employees in the banking sector from Greece, Cyprus and Montenegro.

 

The Economic Policy Institute, Sofia (EPI) successfully conducted the 2010 June visit of US fellows within the German Marshall Fund’s Marshall Memorial Fellowship program. The Marshall Memorial Fellowship program (MMF) was founded in 1982 by the GMF in order to introduce the new generations of European leaders to America's institutions, politics, and society.

 

At the invitation of the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria experts of the Economic Policy Institute lectured in the frameworks of the Ninth Basic Diplomacy Course for junior officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The course’s main objectives are to successfully prepare trainee attaches, which will stand before a testimonial committee in order to gain the diplomatic rank “attache” and to broaden their views on the theoretical, as well as on the practical aspects of the international relations and diplomacy.