In small, often hesitant steps but with eyes wide open with visions of a brighter future, Greece is moving away from the worst of its COVID nightmare, evidenced both by the pleasant banter of citizens seated outside their reopened favorite restaurants and cafes and public servants and businesspersons gathering at events like The Regional Growth Conference held in Patras June 3-5.
The 2021 RGC, organized by the venerable newspaper Peloponnesos, serves as a public platform for dialogue between governmental, regional, academic, and business representatives.
Offering critical and optimistic views of Greece’s current situation and its COVID prospect it was led this year by prominent government ministers including Kostas Karamanlis, Infrastructure; Adonis Georgiadis, Development & Investment, Nikos Dendias, Foreign Affairs; Makis Voridis, Internal Affairs; Charis Theocharis, Tourism; Christos Staikouras, Finance; Spilios Livanos, Rural Development; Kostas Skrekas, Minister of Environment and Energy; Vassilis Kikilias, Health, as well as alternate ministers Stelios Petsas, Theodoros Skylakakis, and Vassilis Kontozamanis and several deputy ministers. While he could not personally attend, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis essentially sent his team’s first-stringers on economic development, making presentations or taking part in panels moderated by leading academics and journalists
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