The headquarters of the Hellenic Development Bank in Athens. The lender will offer improved lending terms to investors wishing to spend up to €50 million in specific sectors of the economy, such as manufacturing, technology, logistics and social welfare.
The government is moving forward with a special legislative framework to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for investment projects of up to €50 million in critical sectors of the economy.
Besides the incentives, which are largely identical to those already in force for strategic investments, regardless of origin, the bill provides for greater facilitations regarding residence permits for foreign investors. It also provides for the possibility of financing FDI from the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), as well as a FIFO (First In, First Out) procedure aimed at ensuring faster and more transparent approval and licensing procedures.
The ultimate goal is to attract not only more FDI, but also more productive ones, given that to date a large part of these, which reached 47% in 2023, were investments in the real estate market. According to Bank of Greece data, net FDI inflows in 2025 amounted to €11.38 billion compared to €7.01 billion in 2024. In 2015-2025, 66% of FDI concerned the service sector and only 21% in the manufacturing sector. In the primary sector, investments are minimal, only 1%. But 31% of FDI in the service sector concerns property management in the same period.
