The Deputy Foreign Minister for International Economic Relations, Dimitris Mardas, will visit Thessaloniki’s Papageorgiou General Hospital this afternoon, at the invitation of the hospital administration, with whom he will discuss the hospital’s problems and how to confront them.
On Saturday, 7 November, Mr. Mardas, addressing the 9th ‘Innovation and Growth - KA Business’ Multi-conference, stressed the need to reduce the time required for the approval of investments and noted the government’s efforts to attract foreign investments. “We cannot have a foreign investor waiting from one to four years for an investment to be approved – we don’t see this anywhere else in the world. We are currently endeavoring to reduce the time required to six months. And six months -- if one considers some other countries where investments are approved in one or two months – six months sounds like a long time, but let’s get to six months and then we can pursue even faster procedures. The first thing we need to do is streamline the bureaucracy,” Mr. Mardas underscored, noting that all international organizations regard bureaucracy as the key factor – even more so than tax rates – in attracting investments.
November 9, 2015