Zelenskyy Announces €40 Billion Investment Strategy for Carpathian Eight

Zelenskyy Announces €40 Billion Investment Strategy for Carpathian Eight

During the Carpathian Summit on September 18, 2026, participating countries unveiled a joint investment portfolio containing 95 projects valued at approximately €40 billion ($44 billion). Organizers have already prepared 50 deals totaling more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion) for immediate signature. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered these figures during his official address at the event. We bring you stories from the ground. Your…

Zelenskyy: 'Met with media representatives along with C8 leaders. Today, in the second part of the summit — in the economic part — there will be significant financial and investment agreements. We will have about 500 business representatives here, investment and trade deals worth a billion euros are prepared — and this is a good start: energy, logistics and infrastructure, as well as cross-sector deals. Next there will be more. Today alone, almost 100 business projects from all eight Carpathian countries will be presented here. And the total volume of these projects is almost 40 billion euros. This is something that can really work for our countries and for our common Carpathians. We assume that in the coming years, economic growth here in the Carpathian macro-region may be twice as fast as the average in the European Union.'