In Brief: EBRD and EC small business loan fund; Austrian President visits

Polish representative in the EBRD, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki said that the two partners would each invest ECU 50 million. (Reuters) ... "Poland is the largest and strategically most important country aspiring to European Union membership,"said Austrian President Thomas Klestil yesterday during his visit to Warsaw. Together with President Aleksander Kwasniewski, he opened the Poland-Austria Economic Forum. (Rzeczpospolita, page 1)