Investments in Santa Fe and integration with the European Union were the major topics of the meeting.
"We are in a period of change and uncertainty in Argentina but it also happens in the whole world, since all countries are experiencing deep transformations in their economies," analyzed Lifschitz, so it was considered "a very valuable meeting" the one developed at the House of Government in Rosario. In this context, he stressed that the province of Santa Fe "has positive prospects related to the strategy of reinsertion of the Argentina in the world".
The Governor explained that he shares the will to integrate the Mercosur and the Alliance of the Pacific and, in the same way, to establish the framework in accordance with the European Union, something which was delayed several years by the previous national Government and caused more harm than good. “For this reason, this is a new opportunity to put the issue on the agenda and advancing positively", he concluded.
"Santa Fe is a province with a strong and diversified productive structure - Lifschitz said to open the meeting, and all sectors of the economy have scale and competitiveness within the framework of the country's economy." We are facing a great opportunity to add value to our production, giving increased competitiveness our companies gain more space at the international level and, at the same time, attract foreign investment that can develop in the province or analyze and accompany the effort of companies already based in Santa Fe, as some of those that you represent," he said.
At that point, he mentioned the creation of Santa Fe Agency for International Trade and Investment (Santa Fe Global), "with the idea of having an agile and dynamic, professional and modern bureau, to develop an active policy for attraction of investments and development of international trade to our companies".
Finally, the provincial leader explained to the delegation of French entrepreneurs that the Santa Fe Government "is focused on the construction of a model of sustainable development based, primarily, on the integration of value chains, in the aggregate value and Santa Fe to our products work and a balanced development throughout the provincial territory." He also remarked, "The province is able to think about a development process within the framework of the country, but with much autonomy in the province".
The Governor was accompanied by the State Secretary for Energy, Verónica Geese, Secretary of International Relations, María Julia Reyna; Secretary of the Treasury, Pablo Olivares; the Secretary of Transportation, Pablo Jukic; and the Secretary of Industry, Emiliano Pietropaolo, among others, while the French delegation headed by Ambassador Guignard was composed of the Chief of the economic services in the Southern Cone, Christian Gianella; the Minister of cooperation and cultural action, and director of the French Institute, Yann Lorvo; the political secretary-counselor, Gregory Varennes; honorary consul of France in Rosario, Emilio Maisonnave; the General Director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Franco Argentina, Liliana Hidalgo. Among these entrepreneurs were at the meeting representatives of the firms Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Lactalis, Litoral Gas, Soletanche-Bachy, Kuhn Mountana, Carrefour, Veolia and Patelin Conseil.
