Ready for cooperation with diaspora Greeks

“We are taking every possible initiative to make most of the potential of our diaspora. We are ready to work even more intensively, together with expatriates, to highlight and promote the Greek brand name and Greek entrepreneurship worldwide,” the secretary-general of international economic relations and external relations at the Foreign Ministry and president of Enterprise Greece, Ioannis Smyrlis, said on Wednesday. He was speaking at the 12th Annual Capital Link Sustainability Forum, titled “Can Sustainability Prevail Over Geopolitics?” and which was held under the auspices of the Regional Authority of Attica. Smyrlis underlined the wide range of business activities and the power of diaspora Greeks as factors for strengthening and expanding Greek entrepreneurship abroad, pointing out that the diaspora is one of the largest in terms of population and also one of the most active in terms of business ventures worldwide, while it also maintains a vibrant and strong relationship with Greece.

German investment.

Greece is now a very attractive investment destination for German companies, mainly due to the progress it has made in the production of renewable energy sources, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Tuesday, expressing satisfaction with the positive climate he encountered during his contacts with representatives of the business community in Germany on a visit to the country, which he also described as “healing the damage suffered by Greek-German relations in the past decade.” “The climate for Greece has changed, the representatives of the business community that I met expressed their admiration of the achievements of the Greek economy in the last three years, and it seems that there is a very strong mood to start making a lot of investments,” Georgiadis said, and offered assurances that in the coming months the two sides will cooperate intensively to turn this positive climate into action.

SME support.

The government will launch the first two programs of the new Operational Programs of the National Strategic Reference Framework 20212027 designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises, worth 1 billion euros, in the next two months, Deputy Development and Investments Minister Yannis Tsakiris said on Tuesday.

Sunlight funds. Sunlight Group has signed the agreement for it to receive financing of 175 million euros from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan toward a project for expanding and modernizing its production capacity. It concerns the construction of energy-efficient building facilities, the addition of state-of-the-art equipment etc.