Please help me prepare tomorrow's Plenary session at The Forum !

I just had a great meeting with George W. Mallinckrodt, President, Schroders, United Kingdom and Co-Chair of the European Economic Summit 2004 to prepare the Plenary session tomorrow about Building a Europe for Business.

As you know, we had another Session on Monday to prepare the Plenary, "Building a Business-Friendly Europe" where many people already contributed on the blog with great comments.

George W. Mallinckrodt, Giancarlo Bruno of the World Economic Forum and myself went through the ideas and suggestions that came out of the session and we found that we do not want to insist too much on the Plenary on the bad news but rather on the good news and be as optimistic as we can even though we will of course highlight the issues.

One of the suggestions that we want to focus on is the successes of Europe in certain areas of business and best practices, here are the ones that come quickly on top of my mind:

-Telecom in Nordic Countries
-Fashion, Design and Luxury sector (France, Italy)
-Retail and Distribution in The UK (Tesco), France (Promodes, Auchan) and Belgium (Delhaize)
-egovernment (Estonia)
-high percentage of entrepreneurs (Poland)
-"Broadband country" giving 100Mbps of Internet bandwidth to all citizens in Pau (France)
-Biotechnology was mentioned in comments for Germany, but I do not know enough about it can you help ?

I miss many others because of lack of time to prepare this note (I need to run to another session), can you help me by adding in the comments any specific best practice in your European Countries (be as detailed as possible please) that we can quote tomorrow to insist on optimism about great things that happened in the EU ?

Thanks very much for your help !

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