Ansgar Belke is (joint with Boris Vujčić, Governor of the Croatian National Bank) invited as a keynote speaker to give a speech on "Boosting external competitiveness in European Union countries - Options for the Southern E(M)U members (including Croatia)", at a conference on "External competitiveness of the EU member countries", University of Zagreb (Faculty of Economics and Business), Croatian National Bank and the Zagreb Institute of Economics, 22-23 October, 2018, Zagreb/Croatia.