In 2023, we are going to continue on this extroverted path of growth, broadening horizons, fostering innovation, and seeking strategic allies to defend our national interests. We will start with a targeted business mission to Japan going by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, at the end of January 2023. This will be followed by an equally important mission to Indian, a huge and promising marketplace for Greek entrepreneurs. Naturally , we will continue to closely monitor current ventures and aid the Greek business neighborhood in its efforts to increase internationally. This is clearly a group and coordinated effort produced by the co-responsible, production-oriented Ministries, which, along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are guiding the Greek economy’s new productive model through the execution of the National Strategic Arrange for Extroversion and the National Recuperation and Resilience Plan. • the particular remarkable deepening of our relationships with the United Arab Emirates, with which we signed an overall total of 12 agreements and memoranda of understanding last May in Dubai, within the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Among them may be the Agreement between the Abu Dhabi state-owned industrial and expense Fund ADQ and the Hellenic Development Bank and Hellenic Development Bank of Assets for the realization of Emirati investments of €4 billion dollars in Greece. The UAE was the country of honor at the 86th Thessaloniki Global Fair (of 2022) According to the newest ELSTAT data, the economic growth rate for the very first nine months of 2022 was higher than the Budget estimation, and GDP is likely to exceed €224 billion in 2023, a figure that is €45 billion, or 25%, higher than in 2018. Moreover, the European Commission needs that Greece will grow at a rate twice the Western average in 2022 and triple in 2023. • the completion of most of the 25 Positive Agenda products with Turkey on economic issues. I remain optimistic and I hope that Chicken will soon cease its provocative conduct and inflamed rhetoric, so that channels associated with communication can be reactivated, to the benefit of all. In a brief and comprehensive review of Economic Diplomacy activity in 2022, I would really like to highlight indicatively: “On a good extroverted path of growth” Under the leadership of a government that addresses every challenges with prudence, determination, and efficiency, our country provides won a double wager in 2022: on the one hand, to enhance its economic prospects in order that it can take measures to support its citizens, and on the other, to strengthen its international existence and role as a pillar of peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
The groundbreaking aspect is based on the importance we attach to Renewable Energy Sources and our own efforts to make Greece power self-sufficient and competitive.
• my recent visit with all the Deputy Minister of Development & Investments for Analysis and Technology Christos Dimas to San Francisco (November 2022), in the context of the government’s goal for the technology field to contribute 10% of the country’s GDP within five year
• the constructive exchange associated with business delegation visits among Greece and Saudi Arabia (March and May 2022), the particular establishment of the Greece-Saudi Persia Business Council, and the committed project to construct a boat data transmission cable from Saudi Arabia to Europe via Greece
At the end of a gloomy year for the world community, during which the spectre of war came back to the heart of European countries with devastating consequences, I dare say that Greece offers recorded a positive course toward progress and growth.
I would not leave out the important and, at the same time, pioneering aspect of our work in the energy plus renewable energy sector. An unparalleled level of investment activity within the sector is recorded in the last few months of 2022. Tasks such as the TAP and IGB pipelines, the Greece-North Macedonia interconnector, the Alexandroupolis FSRU as well as the prospect of building more FSRU plants around Greece, are of tactical importance for the wider Balkans and South-Eastern Europe area and turn Greece into regional energy gateway to the EUROPEAN. I really hope that our efforts and the nation’s successes in the midst of a global economic crisis will be recognized by the Ancient greek people, so that they will continue to trust us. • the important appointments to the Balkans (Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo) to promote and deepen bilateral economic relations and support the Greek business presence in the region. The visit to Gjirokaster was a milestone, as was your tour of the minority towns of the Municipality of Dropull and Pogon (April 2022) aiming to support, politically along with development assistance, the Ancient greek National Minority of Albania It is no exaggeration to say that we are currently outperforming Italy and France in exports of goods and providers as a percentage of GDP. Nor is it an exaggeration to say that, as exports amount to €74 billion plus foreign direct investment figure to €5 billion, the Ancient greek economy’s growth and strength are due, inter alia, to extroversion and purchase, the strategic objectives of Economic Diplomacy. • the reactivation of Joint Inter-Ministerial Economic Committees with countries such as India, Jordan and Kazakhstan, as part of the Foreign Ministry’s overall technique to foster and deepen connections with strong and developing countries/allies on the international picture
