Raiffeisen CEO Stepic: CEE Continues Being Europe’s Growth Driver

People ♦ Published: November 8, 2010; 12:26 ♦ (Vindobona)

The boss of Raiffeisen Bank International Bank (RBI), Herbert Stepic, sees the CEE region continuing as long-term growth driver for Europe.

Raiffeisen CEO Stepic: CEE Continues Being Europe’s Growth Driver / Picture: © Flickr / St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

For the head of Raiffeisen’s CEE holding company, Central and Eastern Europe continues being  the growth region in Europe. Stepic spoke in favor of the expansion in the CEE states at the “Vienna Economic Forum - Go South East":  “A good moment to invest there would be now". The emerging markets have not only passed the crisis test, but they are growth drivers…