22. General Assembly of the Chamber of Commerce Switzerland Central Asia (SEC)

The 22nd General Assembly of the Swiss-Central European Chamber of Commerce took place on July 6.

After a difficult time due to COVID, the event was all about the good future of the relations between Switzerland, Central Europe, the Baltic States and Southeast Europe. The newly elected Vice President Raoul Keller showed the importance of the region for the Swiss MEM industry and the new President Oliver Bertschinger spoke about the future vision of the “new” SEC! With 4.7% of Swiss exports and 3.9% of imports (both growing massively in recent years) and with 457000 people from CEE living in Switzerland, the relations between CEE and Switzerland are in many ways of enormous importance.

The General Assembly also marked the start of the “new SEC”. With a new management team, new board members and a new strategy, SEC’s main two goals as an organization are to strengthen the mutually extremely important relations of Switzerland with the 17 CEE countries. Whilst at the same time to help our members, clients and partners to better achieve their goals.