The Greek government is looking for a road map to create an innovative, cutting –edge and extrovert pharmaceutical industry. The country already has “a domestic vibrant but not exactly cutting-edge pharmaceutical industry” as the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, noted in an online meeting with the heads of top pharmaceutical firms and experts. Now Greece [...]
The draft of the Greek National Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) has been submitted to the European Commission. It is a plan based on two parallel lines of action: investment and reform. The ultimate goal is to cover the investment, output and employment gap in Greece. To this end the mobilization of private sector resources [...]
In the debt crisis era, labor cost in Greece was attacked as one of the reasons of the country's low competitiveness. The loss of international competitiveness of the Greek economy was associated with a rapid increase in labor costs in the period up to 2009. Under the three Economic Adjustment Programs, Greece cut drastically wages [...]
By Symela Touchtidou Greece is the fourth largest exporter of marble in the world. The Greek marble extraction and production sector is a rare example of success story during the decade long financial crisis of Greece: faced with the near elimination of internal construction, the sector was forced to redefine its business model and its [...]
By Symela Touchtidou, @stouchtidou On October 30, Greece’s telecoms regulator, Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), launched a tender for frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2 GHz, 3400-3800 MHz and 26 GHz bands. These are the frequencies allocated for the country’s next generation telecommunication networks, the 5G networks. In Trikala, the pilot program ran [...]
by Symela Touchtidou The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has published the invitation for the expression of interest for the assets of the "General Mining and Metallurgical Société Anonyme, LARCO". Among them the Larynos Mining Complex. LARCO is one of the five largest ferronickel producers in the world. In late November, the Special Administrator [...]
Greek banks have made quite a good progress in cleaning up their balance sheets from non-performing loans (NPLs), but more needs to be done. “This is not the time to wait and see“ is the message coming from Frankfurt, via Andrea Enria’s interview to the Greek national TV, ERT. The Chair of the Supervisory Board [...]
Lamda Development S.A. and TEMES S.A. announced the signing of their strategic agreement for the joint development of two state of the art, luxury hotels and residential complexes on the costal front of the Hellinikon project, during the first five year phase of the project. The partnership will bring to life "a commonly shared vision [...]
The Greek government is determined to reverse the brain drain. The country lost about 500.000 of its most highly skilled workers during the debt crisis of 2010-2018. Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, says that GDP growth and new jobs need highly skilled workforce to take the country to the next industrial revolution. Next week [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 By Dr Anna Bredima* Guillotine or bonanza? Shipping between sustainable funding “black out” and “green” financing In the framework of international consultations aiming at the protection of the environment and especially the reduction of emissions, the EU has launched a coordinated effort for the timely application of obligations [...]
