First International Scientific Conference on The Monetary Policies in The Balkan Region, The Future of The Euro and Eurozone in The Balkans

The First International Scientific Conference on the Monetary Policies in the Balkan Region, the Future of the Euro and Eurozone in the Balkans was held at the UNWE. The two days Forum was organized by the Research and Training Center for Monetary History, Theory and Policy at UNWE. The event was financed by the UNWE project (R&S Activity -12 / 2015). At the opening of the Conference attended the Rector Prof. D.Sc.(Econ.) Statty Stattev, Prof. D.Sc.(Econ.) Nikolay Nenovsky, Director of the Research and Training Center for Monetary History, Theory and Policy, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Plamen Oresharsky, Prime Minister (since May 2013 to August 2014), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Chobanov, deputy, Financial Minister (since 2013 to 2014), Gordon Kerr, banking expert, consultant at the Cobden Partners, United Kingdom, Chief Assist. Dr. Radostin Vazov, Executive Director of the University of Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship – co-organizer of the event, scientists and specialists from some Bulgarian and foreign universities.

We are proud of being a host of this Conference organized by the Research and Training Center for Monetary History, Theory and Policy at UNWE. We are glad to meet representatives of the academic world from several countries, outlined Assoc. Prof. Pencho Penchev, Deputy Dean of the General Economics Faculty and Deputy Director of the Center, moderator of the Forum.

Prof. Stattev is greeting the participants in the Forum.

I am glad that we meet scientists from several countries because the objective of the Research and Training Center for Monetary History, Theory and Policy is to unite the researchers from the Balkan region and to attract young scientists, pointed out Prof. D.Sc.(Econ.) Nikolay Nenovsky, Director of the Center. He expressed his hope that the Conference would become a tradition and the discussions and researches would have as fundamental as well as applicable and experimental importance for the future of the European currency in the Balkans.

The main thematic directions for the Conference were the following: Monetary Theory / Monetary Policy, Central Banking, Monetary and Financial Institutions / Monetary History and History of Monetary Thought / Social and Complementary Monetary Systems / Interdisciplinary Issues Related to Money as Social Phenomenon.

In the work of the Conference participated representatives from the London School of Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Portugal University of Minho, Skopje University, the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, etc.