EBRD Urges WBs to Work on Infrastructure Legal Systems, Marja Novak / Reuters, 5 September 2017
EBRD Urges Western Balkans to Work on Infrastructure, Legal Systems, by Marja Novak / Reuters, Sept. 5, 2017 BLED, Slovenia (Reuters) - Western Balkan states need to improve 'hard connectivity' such as transport links and strengthen their legal systems as they seek to attract more investment, the vice president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Tuesday. Pierre Heilbronn told Reuters the EBRD would keep investing about 1 billion euros ($1.2 bln) per year in the region that includes Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania - all of which aspire to join the European Union. He said countries have to focus on how to "remove obstacles between these markets, which otherwise are quite small for even domestic investors". "Everything which is linked to hard connectivity ...…