Elena Kohutikova: Slovakia - perspective place for investments Speech by Ms Elena Kohutikova, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, at the Conference “Middle and East Europe – region of the future”, Salzburg, 15 October 2003. *  *  *  Slovakia has been disregarded as a reasonable country to place an investment in, for a long time.
This trend has been showing on the results of total foreign direct investments made in Slovakia until 1999 compared to the other countries acceding to the European Union in May 2004. After the changes of general economic policy (economic reforms, legislative changes, making institutions more transparent…) with the new government seizing power in 1998, this FDI per capita gap shrinked to minimum.