today the cee20 & the americas account for 54 countries
Who we are?
About us
The Federation of Central & Eastern European Chambers of Commerce, Inc. (Federation CEE) is a non-for-profit, non-political, non-governmental organization based in Miami, Florida, USA.
Federation CEE is promoting and representing the interest of chambers of commerce, business organizations as well as enterprises from all economic sectors and industries of Central & Eastern Europe.
Our mission is to become widely recognized as a leader and one of the indispensable center for trade and commerce between Central & Eastern Europe and the Americas and Caribbean.
Federation CEE Member Countries (CEE20)
Federation CEE initiative comprises of twenty Central and Eastern European countries (CEE20). This includes Poland, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Moldova, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belarus and Albania.
The founders of this initiative are from: Poland, Hungary, Romania and Greece.
NATO Member Countries from CEE
14 countries of CEE20 are member countries of NATO:
Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Romania Slovakia and Slovenia. 2023 New members: Finland & Sweden.
The CEE region will benefit from recent NATO-wide decisions such as the announced expansion of the NATO Response Force (NRF) from 40,000 to more than 300,000 soldiers, a review of deterrence and defense plans, and a pledge to boost the common budget and the additional US reinforcements in Western Europe.
Three-Seas Initiative
Important regional alliance is the THREE-SEAS INITIATIVE, which was founded by Poland and Croatia in Dubrovnik in August 2016. In addition to Poland and Croatia, members presently include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovenia. This Three Seas Initiative span the space between Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas and one of its main purpose is to better integrate common infrastructure projects north-south in the new EU states of Central Europe. This initiative has high support of current US government.
Interestingly, seven member countries of this project, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, were part of the Intermarium plan of JozefPilsudski of Poland, who proposed a federation of Baltic States after the end of World War I.
The Birth of the Three-Seas Initiative
Attention was drawn to Europe’s disparity in development in 2014 by a US think tank, the Atlantic Council, in a report entitled ‘COMPLETING EUROPE’.
This inspired the then heads of state of two countries – President Andrzej Duda of Poland and President KolindaGrabar-Kitarović of Croatia – to launch an initiative, which has gone on to attract more and more senior figures and leading players from the worlds of business and politics.