With the aim of enhancing Greek-French economic and commercial cooperation and promoting business synergies, in the presence of five ministers and two deputy ministers from Greece and the participation of more than 50 Greek companies, as well as French companies active in Greece, a Greek-French business meeting -investment forum is being held today in Paris jointly organized by the Greek-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the Greek government.
This is an initiative launched in 2020 with the aim of expanding Greek-French cooperation in a number of critical sectors of the economy and promoting joint ventures between Greek and French companies. For example, the Greek business mission includes companies from the shipping, energy, construction, pharmaceutical and technology sectors.
During the business-investment Forum, Greek and French ministers and government representatives will present the actions and collaborations carried out in the last two years, but also highlight new opportunities and investment prospects in the most important sectors, such as energy and environment, tourism , transport and shipping, defense and security, technology and digital transformation, economy.
Recovery Fund
The work of the Forum, which has the theme “Greece-France Cooperation 2.0: Investing in the future”, begins at 09:00 in the morning local time (10:00 Greek time) with the greetings of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for economic diplomacy, Kostas Fragogiannis, the president of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dominique Restino and the president of the Greek-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry Laurent Thuillier.
Immediately after, the official opening of the Forum begins with the speakers of the Ministers of Finance, Christos Staikouras, and of Development and Investments, Adonis Georgiadis, as well as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Olivier Becht. Afterwards, a thematic section on energy and the environment will be held, with the speaker general secretary of Energy and Minerals Alexandra Sdoukou, the general director of Energy and Climate at the Ministry of Energy Transition of France Laurent Michel and the participation of representatives of the business people in the respective industry.
Tourism
The next topic concerns tourism, during which the Deputy Minister of Tourism Sofia Zaharakis will speak about the prospects and the development of the tourism model in Greece.
Afterwards, the Ministers of Infrastructure and Transport Kostas Karamanlis and Shipping and Island Policy Yiannis Plakiotakis, as well as the Deputy Minister of Ecological Transition, Territorial Cohesion and Transport of France Clement Bon will talk about green infrastructures as drivers of development in the transport and shipping sectors.