Investment

Bulgaria Ranks 4th in the EU in Terms of Investment from the Juncker Plan

As one of the MEPs who worked most actively on the creation and distribution of the European Fund for Strategic Investments under the Juncker Plan, I am proud that Bulgaria ranks fourth in the European Union in terms of attracted investment in terms of gross domestic product.

Delphi Forum roundtable presents Greece's investment plan

Institutional investors from international investment groups and business group representatives were presented with a full picture of the country's investment map by government ministers and deputies, during a Foreign Direct Investments Roundtable organized by the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday.

Blackstone to buy five hotels in Greek islands

Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe, a unit of US private equity firm Blackstone Group, agreed to buy five hotels in Greece from Louis Group in a deal valued at 178.6 million euros (197 million dollars), the firm said on Friday. 

Greece has seen an upsurge in tourism in recent years. A record number of about 33 million visited year. 

Blackstone to launch hotel buying spree

US investment fund Blackstone is set to carry out investments of 500 million euros in Greek hotel properties, starting in the next few days.

According to sources, the first acquisition in its Greek portfolio will concern units of a hotel chain with a significant presence in the Ionian and Aegean islands, in a transaction that is expected to come to almost 200 million euros.

Editorial: The land of lost opportunities

It is common knowledge that major investments are needed for Greece to definitively exit the crisis and stagnation.

Analysts and experts say that Greece needs about ten billion euros in investments annually to reach a growth rate that will allow the country to make up lost ground.

Instead, we see that efforts to attract investment usually reach an impasse.

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