Energy security in Central-Eastern Europe, investments and European financial integration will be the leading issues discussed at the 17th Economic Forum in Krynica, southern Poland, starting on September 5, PAP reported on Monday.

The forum, to last until Sept. 8, is to be attended by EU commissioners, European ministers and government and parliamentary delegations from Central and Eastern Europe.

Poland's former Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is to attend a discussion on the future of foreign investments in the region while Poland's former President Aleksander Kwasniewski is to lead a panel "Europe-crisis, changes, chances."

Planned are debates on "Russian economy today" and "EU-Russia --prospects for a new agreement," "Banking and economic growth in Central and Eastern countries."