The coming years will be crucial for the future of
the country. There is an urgent need to create a
new national development model, based on the:
●Utilization of the strategic advantages of our
country.
●Development of a new relationship between the
state and he citizens, based on mutual trust
and faith to achieve the national objectives.
●Enhancement of sound measures for supporting
entrepreneurship in all sectors of the economy.
●Consolidation of the principles of justice and
transparency in the functioning of the state at
all policy levels of our economic and social life.
●Preservation of social cohesion and equal par-
ticipation of all citizens in the various benefits.
Based on these principles, and taking into serious
consideration the effort that our country has been
making on the European level, in order to put an
end to all those sterile policies that simply recycle
and aggravate the economic and humanitarian
crisis, we can ensure that Greece will regain an
important place in the global economic and busi-
ness environment.
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that is considered to lead to a recovery of busi-
ness investment.
The European Commission already esti-
mates that investment in Greece will
increase by 8.4% in 2015 and
15% in 2016, on a year-on-
year basis. This improve-
ment is facilitated by the
positive trends of key
economic indicators:
●According to a report
by the European
Commission, Greece
showed the best
progress in reducing
the cost of starting a
new business.
●In the global competitive-
ness rankings of the
World Economic Forum
(Global Competitiveness
Report 2014-2015), Greece
improved its ranking by ten
places, rising to the 81st place
out of 144 countries.
●According to the Global Entrepreneur-
ship Index 2015 (GEI), established by the
Global Entrepreneurship Network in cooperation
with the Institute GEDI (The Global
Entrepreneurship and Development Institute),
Greece occupies the 47th place among 130
countries with competitive advantages such us
business start-up skills, human resource capa-
bility, technology integration and internationaliza-
tion.
It’s positive that in February 2015 the economic
sentiment indicator in Greece rose to 98.2 points
from 95.3 points in the previous month, thanks to
a recovery of consumer confidence by almost 20
units, which, according to the Foundation for
Economic & Industrial Research (IOVE), is at its
highest level since 2009.
All figures reported above reflect Greece’s capa-
bility to set its economy on the path of recovery in
the near future. This path will not be easy, as the
unstable international environment is not con-
ducive to this great effort.
Greek people, having suffered severe sacrifices
during the last five years, have proved their deter-
mination to support the national effort to get our
country out of this deep recession. Their sacri-
fices must not be wasted.
