City Business Perspectives in the New Europe

The City of Siauliai, its community clearly recognize that by only making joint effort the city is able to compete and to be more advanced. Its is evident, that the business community is the city's driving force. Having a high entre-preneurship within the city, in the parallel, culture, science and city economy will be developed too.

The Siauliai authority challenge to participate in the EU structural policy can be considered as one of the most attractive of the EU accession aspects related with the funding from the EU budget. This is extra money allocated for investment into manufacturing, infrastructure development and modernization, support for labour force training programs, environmental management, etc. The EU structural support will substantially boost the economic and social development.

The Siauliai companies actively participate in the EU integration process having a possibility to strengthen their competitiveness producing improvement in quality and speeding up the rate of innovation, to ensure business possibilities for consumers and city development, to create new jobs and as well to use the EU Structural Funds for manufacturing and infrastructure development, investment projects, education programs and vocational training in accordance with the Single Programming Document of Lithuania.

Siauliai City Council constantly discusses and approves decisions regarding business promotion policy, stimulation and support of entre-preneurship, encouragement of foreign direct investment in the city. Investment development and promotion system is under elaboration. The local authority has launched a program supporting small and medium business promotion within the city.

The Municipality is ambitious with already launched Sustainable City Development Plan for the period of 15 years with the strategic aim to assure the city community's qualitative living environment while minimising negative impact on resources, integrating social, environmental and economic progress.

The EU enlargement in the Baltic Sea Region will bring huge opportunities to enhance the collaboration among governments, business and citizens. Our core aim is to make the most out of these opportunities and to maximise win-win situations.