“To date, there is no cancellation or postponement investment plandue to of war“, Pointed out the Minister of Development and Investment, Adonis Georgiadesat yesterday’s event on “Public and Private Investments in Greece” of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry held at the Entrepreneurship Center “Konstantinos Michalos” of ΕΒΕΑ.
However, the minister, as noted in an announcement of the chamber, described “testing the reflection on how the world economy will develop and what this will mean for the Greek”. Mr. Georgiadis presented them reform axes of strategy of Ministryexpressed the belief that in addition to tourism, Greece can have extremely positive results in the field of industry and reaffirmed the commitment of the government to structural changes aimed at further improving the business and investment environment. “In this direction, we cooperated with EVEA, achieving excellent results and we will do the same in the future,” he noted.
For his part, Mr. Βρατάκος, stressed that “the last two years, despite the extraordinary conditions created by the pandemic, we are seeing an impressive recovery of investment activity. Especially, in terms of Foreign Direct Investment, which in 2021 made a jump of 70% “. “These performances are very encouraging. They confirm the dynamics of the Greek economy. “And they reflect a great and successful effort to create a friendlier investment environment, which incorporated proposals and demands of the chamber community to reduce taxation, to digitize public administration, to improve labor legislation,” said the president. of EVEA.
However, as Mr. Bratakos pointed out, the participation of investment in the GDP remains today the lowest in European Union and for this reason, the acceleration of investments remains a bet of growth – even survival – for the Greek economy in the coming years. Before the financial crisis, the investments in Hellas reflected the characteristics of an unsustainable growth model, where industry had a share of fixed capital formation of only 4%. Purely productive investments – such as investments in equipment and intellectual property – were a meager minority. “In our experience today, we know this model needs to change. The challenge is clear. We want more investments, which expand the productive and development potential of the country. “Investments that create sustainable jobs and better real incomes, in the long run”, stressed the president of EVEA.
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