Investments

Boosting investments in Macedonia and the creation of a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki was discussed in a series of meetings between U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, the regional governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas and city mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Friday. During...

Chinese investors are on top of the list of the "Greek Golden Visa" recipients as the program provides residence permits to third-country residents and their families when they invest 250,000 euros or more in real estate property in Greece. Real...

The Greek economy grew 0.3 percent in 2016 and is expected to grow by 2.7 percent this year and by 3.1 percent in 2018, the European Commission said in its winter forecasts. The EU's executive, in a report released on Monday,...

The prime minister's stopover in Paris on the way back from Lisbon was not a "holiday" but mainly focused on finding solutions for Greece's debt and efforts to promote foreign investment, government sources said, in reply to main opposition New...

The three main conditions that Greece must fulfill to attract healthy business investments are transparency in tenders' procedure, strong state operation framework and financing from the banks, wrote the Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou in his article in...

Attracting investments for Greece from abroad tops the agenda of the new political leadership of the Economy ministry, the new Economy Minister, Dimitris Papadimitriou announced following last Friday's government reshuffle. "We will focus on attracting investments in the framework of the euro...

Greece dropped three places in the annual World Bank report on the ease of doing business, with its main weaknesses being contract compliance and property registration. According to the report, Greece is as close to attracting foreign investors as Afghanistan...

Capital controls are deterrent to investors in Greece and "you cannot keep these controls and expect the country to do well," said Calamos Investments CEO John Koudounis. The Calamos executive spoke to Greek Reporter saying that in the past his company...

Egyptian-Greek relations remain strong, Christodoulos Lazaris, Greece's ambassador to Egypt said to dailynewsegypt.com, as he is nearing the end of his six-year term. In his time as ambassador, there has been much focus on further developing relations between the two...

The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) dropped the bomb by demanding the liberalization of group dismissals, a drastic restriction of strike action and more strength for corporate contracts over agreements concerning workers sectors. The legislation SEV is calling for, was...