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Rõivas met with Minister-President
in Bavaria Horst Seehofer on
Tuesday. Rõivas said at the meeting that the relations between Estonia and
Germany in various areas are close and the Estonian entrepreneurs are
interested in cooperating with their German partners.
“I am sure that the similar work
culture of Estonia and Germany will contribute to the promotion of bilateral
cooperation,” Rõivas said. “Many Estonian enterprises are also interested in
business relations with Bavaria and my visit will hopefully help to contribute
to this.”
Seehofer and Rõivas agreed that the
internal market of the European Union must be further developed. Free trade
agreement with the USA was also favoured.
Rõivas characterised Estonia as an
enterprise friendly country, which has a successful liberal economy, whose
budget is in balance, whose external debt is small, competitiveness high and
level of corruption low.
The opportunities offered by
information and communication technologies were discussed more thoroughly at
the Prime Ministers’ meeting. Rõivas introduced Estonia as a developed
e-Government.
“Estonia is attractive as a place
for the development of public e-services,” Rõivas confirmed. “E-solutions
should be introduced more widely across the European Union. This would reduce
bureaucracy and make the work more efficient.”
Rõivas and the business delegation
had several economic meetings during the two-day visit to Munich that ended
today. The Association of the Bavarian Economy, the Chamber of Industry and
Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria and Munich Network – an organisation
created by the technology industry of Bavarian capital to promote innovation
and entrepreneurship – were visited.
“Estonia is an attractive business
environment for foreign investors and companies,” Rõivas said when meeting with
the Bavarian operators from the business world. “This is also confirmed by a
poll that was carried out by the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in April
this year, showing that the German companies consider Estonia to be the most
attractive country for foreign investments out of 21 countries.”
The same poll also showed that 94 %
of Germans, who have already invested in Estonia, would do it again.
The visit also included meetings
with the BMW Group management. At the main office of BMW Group, the development
of electric cars was under a more thorough discussion and Rõivas gave an
overview of the Estonia’s electric cars project during the meeting.
The Prime Minister was accompanied
by a ten-member business delegation, representing companies in various
operational areas in Estonia, such as information technology, construction,
logistics, and energy. The visit to Bavaria was Prime Minister Rõivas’ first
working visit with a business delegation.
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