The President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, Trajan Angeloski at the "Marili Business Forum" held today in Ohrid said that the situation in which businesses are is extremely difficult and uncertain. According to him, the economic operators do not have reserves with which they could maintain the disturbed liquidity, because the crisis we are facing lasts a very long time, and the challenges follow each other.

Angeloski, as reported by MCC, stressed the importance of women in business and women's entrepreneurship and the activity of women entrepreneurs in MCC and in general that the crisis situation in which we are for three years has completely changed the way of doing business.

- In order to stay in the game, ie to preserve the business activity, new skills need to be developed as well as a pronounced ability to adapt. The increase in energy prices has caused a serious increase in inputs in production processes, the increase is on a daily basis and it is very difficult to plan and maintain business activity. Supply chains are completely disrupted. The forecasts for the next period are very uncertain, all relevant financial institutions correct the expectations for stabilization of the economies and postpone the period for returning to the situation before the crisis - said Angeloski

According to Angeloski, MCC aims to create new opportunities for its members by engaging in new regional initiatives such as the "Green Navigator of the Western Balkans", which will provide support in the green transformation of the economy.

- The initiative "Green Navigator in the Western Balkans" works to reduce the impact of climate change on the regional economy and society in general. It is important that through the "Green Navigator" in the accreditation phase is the Green Climate Fund, which will finance climate-responsive investments in the private and public sector in the Western Balkans, which will be a significant contribution to accelerating the green transformation, said Angeloski.

In the panel discussion, he emphasized that in our country women as human capital are not placed in the function of economic growth and development because half of the able-bodied female population is not on the labor market at all.