Foreign direct investment (FDI) rose nearly 42% in the first half of 2025, compared to the same period in 2024, Bank of Greece data show.<\/p>\n
Specifically, FDI reached \u20ac2.801 billion from \u20ac1.974 billion in 2024. But the gains are relative to a weak base, since the second half of 2024 was much better than the first.<\/p>\n
For all of 2024, FDI was \u20ac6.749 billion, up 41% from 2023 (4.775 billion) but less than the record year of 2022 (\u20ac8.026 billion).<\/p>\n
There is still no breakdown by sector but, at least, investment in real estate was \u20ac356.8 million, down from \u20ac520 million in the first half of 2024.<\/p>\n
Higher FDI is one of the government\u2019s top priorities as Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis indicated recently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout investments, there are now new jobs and better salaries,\u201d he said, announcing changes in industry, tourism and zoning, as well as a 25% cut in bureaucracy.<\/p>\n
All these measures, he said, will be announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 6.<\/p>\n
According to a report by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Greece\u2019s FDI numbers in 2022 and 2024 were the best since 1990.<\/p>\n
Hatzidakis said that total investment, and not just FDI, has risen 64% in constant prices since 2019, the best progress in the EU. But, as a percentage of GDP, Greece (15.3% in 2024) lags the eurozone average (21%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign direct investment (FDI) rose nearly 42% in the first half of 2025, compared to the same period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,9039],"class_list":["post-92017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}