In what is seen as the first tangible sign of optimism, the number of new businesses created in Greece in 2017 was 5.7 per cent higher compared to 2016, while the number of business closures fell by 34.8 per cent.
According to data provided by the business registry of the Ministry of Economy, 30,077 new businesses opened in 2017, while 24,046 terminated their operation.
In 2016, the corresponding figures were 28,463 and 36,881 respectively. source:neoskosmos
PS without decent jobs available it is logical that people risk entrepreneurship even if they are forced to close a year later.
It is very easy and cheap to open a company now in GR. Much better than before. So yes, it is worth it to open a company if you have some savings and nothing better to do, worst case it goes bad and you close it down and owe money to the state, but if you have nothing then the state can’t really take anything and just add it to half the population who owes money to the govt!
It would appear that you support Syriza. The following contradicts your article.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talks economics and geopolitics at …
Nov 2, 2017 – The Brookings Institution recently hosted Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for a discussion on geopolitics and the current trajectory of the Greek economy.
Greece won’t implement tax reforms without debt deal in place — Tsipras
Apr 25, 2017 – Alexis Tsipras, prime minister, insisted in a television interview that Greece planned to legislate additional tax and pension reforms demanded by bailout creditors but would not implement them unless a deal on debt relief was in place. “These measures aren’t going to be implemented if the issue of the debt …
Mitsotakis calls Tsipras a ‘PM of lies and taxes’ .
Oct 26, 2017 – Opposition conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has lashed out at Alexis Tsipras describing him as a “prime minister of lies and taxes” who is spinning the myth that Greece is done with bailouts and that there is a primary surplus that will be used to fund his government’s social agenda.
Alexis Tsipras – Wikipedia
Alexis Tsipras is the Prime Minister of Greece, in office since 21 September 2015. He previously served as Prime Minister from 26 January 2015 to 27 August 2015. Tsipras has been leader of the left-wing Greek political party Syriza since 4 October 2009. Tsipras was born in Athens in 1974. He joined the Communist Youth …
Tsipras’s spending spree may be relief to Greeks but it won’t end crisis …
Dec 17, 2016 – First came the announcement that low-income pensioners, forced to survive in tax-heavy post-crisis Greece on €800 or less a month, would receive a one-off, pre-Christmas bonus. Then came the news that Greeks living on Aegean isles which have borne the brunt of refugee flows would not be subject to a …
Greek farmers rail against Tsipras as taxes loom – Reuters
Jan 22, 2016 – Three years ago, a young Greek opposition politician named Alexis Tsipras clambered onto a tractor to give a rousing speech to hundreds of cheering farmers blockading the roads, vowing to ‘crush’ harsh reforms that he said were leading nowhere.
Tsipras Vows He Won’t Impose Another Euro in Taxes – The National …
Tsipras Vows He Won’t Impose Another Euro in Taxes. January 25, 2017. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is always optimistic even when the numbers are against him. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber). ATHENS – After passing an avalanche of tax hikes on orders of international lenders, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said …
Alexis Tsipras’ €100 billion problem – POLITICO
Feb 21, 2017 – THESSALONIKI, Greece — As opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras promised that “not a single house” would be taken from Greeks who can’t pay their mortgage. … After the Greek government agreed at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on February 20 to discuss further reforms of its tax and pension …
Greek ship owners clash with Schäuble over taxation –
@ripsokindynos. It appears that your post is propaganda for ND. Kihdly do not quote the laughable comments of Mitsotakis at us — a useless and inexperienced person from a family of politicians who have screwed Greece for decades. At least Tsipras does not come from the dubiously wealthy political families of Greece, like Papandreou and Mitsotakis.
No, its easier to open a new business. No one delcares their full income in GR, you know that, they just evade what they can and pay as little tax as possible.
Now this sounds crazy, but for the time being is normal in GR.
In the end, TIG = THIS IS GREECE.
At least it doesnt take months to open a company like it used to. Small steps man! Greece cannot change in 1 day!