With a post on LinkedIn today (24.6.2025) the Vice President of the Government Kostis Hatzidakiswanted to show her upward course Greek economy In recent years, in direct foreign investment.
“I would like to dwell today on an important – but with little projection – news, a news that has in practice reflecting the steady upward trend of the Greek economy in recent years, through hard work and reforms,” Kostis Hatzidakis said in his post.
According to UNC (UN Commerce and Development Organization), Greece in 2024 recorded the 2nd best performance, since 1990, in direct foreign investment (The best was recorded in 2022). Foreign investment flows reached $ 7.3 billion, recording an increase of 41.5% compared to 2023. Bank of Greece data show that this positive course continues in the first quarter of 2025.
Greece achieved the largest cumulative investment increase between 2019 – 2024
The significant increase in direct foreign investment is not isolated: The total increase in investment from 2019 to 2024, at constant prices, reaches 64%. This is the biggest increase in the whole EU! And in this achievement, creative Greek entrepreneurs and workers have also contributed.
Increase in investment is not only due to real estate
Some will argue that the increase in investment is essentially in the real estate sector. It is a myth that has been spreading a lot in recent years!
If you look at comparative elements it will probably come to other conclusions: In 2024 the proportion of investments in our country that went to real estate was 39.2% while in the EU it was 51.3%. That is, 12 percentage points higher!
The observed increase in building activity comes after a decade of almost complete stagnation. In recent years investments are necessary to meet real needs. And it is a contradiction that the ones who say about the alleged monoculture of real estate at the same time are talking about a roofing problem in Greece.
We gradually cover the investment gap
Despite the significant progress of recent years, Greece still has an investment gap in relation to the European average. Due to the ten -year financial crisis, we were far behind. It is indicative that investment in 2019 made up only 11% of GDP!
But we have now begun to converge: in 2024 this percentage rose to 15.3%while 2025 is projected to reach 16.2% of GDP compared to 21% of GDP in the Eurozone. This means that Greece will now have the lowest investment gap from 2011 until today.
It is worth noting that in a GDP that has been increasing in recent years, investment is constantly increasing their share. So, in other words, they have a larger part of a larger “pie”.
We give even greater emphasis on investment
We are determined, from now on, to put even greater emphasis on investment. Because we know that without investment, there are no new jobs and better salaries. We are therefore proceeding with the special spatial spatial for industry, the corresponding plan for tourism, further bureaucracy reduction by 25%, local and special planning plans, as well as other structural interventions that will be specialized by the Prime Minister at the TIF.