After Singapore, London: Kyriakos Mitsotakis travels to the British capital on Sunday, where on Monday morning he will participate and speak at the fourth investment conference “Morgan Stanley and Athens Stock Exchange Greek Investment Conference,” organized by Morgan Stanley and the Athens Stock Exchange.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis: What he will say at the Morgan Stanley conference and at Oxford
There he will have a public discussion with Clare Woodman, managing director of Morgan Stanley & Co. International and head of Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Canada. Also, within the framework of the conference, he will meet with top investors.
A little later, he plans to travel to Oxford, where he will have a fireside chat at the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University, a school that has evolved into one of the leading centers for education and research in public policy internationally.
The discussion will be with Ngaire Woods, professor of global economic governance and dean of the School, who is considered to provide high-level interdisciplinary training in the areas of governance, international relations, economic policy and leadership and to be a reference point in connecting theory and practice of governance.
A major “asset” in the closed discussions he has with investors, bankers and fund managers abroad is the capabilities and opportunities that the Greek economy presents
Mitsotakis’ strong narrative on political stability – Greece’s big weapon
This period, despite the globally unstable environment due to the two-year war in the Middle East, the ongoing war in Ukraine and other factors, is considered at the Maximos Mansion to provide significant opportunities for foreign businesses and capital to come to Greece, and this is the main goal of the prime minister’s trips.
- Political stability in the country, where a majority government has been ruling for almost seven consecutive years, is one of the basic elements of the prime minister’s political “narrative” to his foreign counterparts – whether those he saw in Singapore or those he will meet in England or elsewhere.
- The second element of the international environment that he highlights, according to information, in the discussions the prime minister has is the political and fiscal situation in Europe’s major economies, such as Britain, France and Germany, with serious parliamentary disputes and intragovernmental crises regarding the preparation of national budgets, at the same time that these countries’ economies are trapped in weak growth. He contrasts the situation in our country with stable growth in recent years, well above the European average, with parallel continuous annual primary surpluses in the budget. As Mr. Mitsotakis mentioned in a digression of his speech at the day before yesterday’s Cabinet session, “at a time when most governments in Europe – the Finance Minister knows this well from his international contacts – are forced to vote for austerity budgets – you saw what happened in the United Kingdom, which is currently facing a ‘hole’ that exceeds 20 billion pounds – we can not only achieve our fiscal targets, but also return the dividend of growth back to citizens, as a ‘bulwark’ against the increased cost of living.”
- The third part on which, according to the same information, the prime minister focuses in the closed discussions he has with investors, bankers and fund managers abroad is the capabilities and opportunities that the Greek economy presents.
What messages Mitsotakis wants to send to international investors – What his associates tell “Parapolitika”
“Many of them think we only have tourism and shipping, but he explains to them that we export pharmaceuticals, agri-food goods, high-tech products and others and analyzes developments in energy, logistics and startups,” emphasizes a prime minister’s associate to “P”. “The way he communicates all this also creates confidence,” the same official argues.
Specifically, in London, on Monday morning, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to government sources, will have the opportunity to present the continuing progress of the Greek economy and Greece’s attractiveness as an investment destination. This progress is reflected, as he will emphasize, in the growth rate of the Greek economy, which consistently exceeds the European average, the large reduction in unemployment, the increase in investments (including foreign direct investments), the continuous reduction of public debt, the good performance of the Greek financial sector, where significant foreign investments are recorded (UniCredit and Euronext), the rising startup ecosystem and Greece’s progress in digitization and integration of Artificial Intelligence in economic activity, Education and Public Administration.
The prime minister will also refer to Greece’s transformation into an energy and broader economic hub in the Southeast Europe region, as well as the strengthening of our country’s geopolitical importance in the broader region.
