Greece’s high-caliber technology professionals and the reforms being implemented are what make the country a desirable investment destination, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, addressing a Greek-French development and investment initiative at Zappeion Hall in Athens, ANA reports.
The ‘Growing Together initiative included the French public investment bank Bpifrance, the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), and the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments S.A. (HDBI), and was under the auspices of the Greek Development & Investments Ministry. Also included were investment entities from Greece, France, Germany, Finland, and Denmark, which aim at leveraging a total of 3.3 billion euros in EU funds targeting technology companies.
“Greece has a huge human capital,” Mitsotakis told potential investors, “and this is particularly important for me: if you focus on the technology sector, I think that what many foreign businesses saw in Greece was the quality of our engineers, who come at a lower cost than the European average, and who know how to work very hard.” As he pointed out, “Greece lost 500,000 young people who left during the crisis – highly talented young people, who assume risks, and who left Greece. It is the first time they plan to return to Greece.”
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