The “collective priority” of the incoming governments must be to establish “a properly regulated internal market that will attract investment, sustain growth in employment and protect consumers,” High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told an international business seminar in
“The economic agenda that
“The principal stumbling block is that economic laws have been viewed as pieces on a chessboard, to be moved or held back according to tactical advantage,” he said, arguing that a clear distinction should be made between difficult political reforms and economic reforms that must be implemented “in the coming weeks and months” so as to start rolling back the spread of poverty.