Uncertainty worries corporate affairs officials

Greek firm affairs professionals are not lone acrophobic astir the geopolitical unrest successful the world and the regulatory uncertainty, arsenic are their peers abroad, but besides astir home governmental uncertainty, having the acquisition of the decade-long situation of the 2010s, a survey by About People researchers has found.

The poll, presented connected Thursday astatine the 4th AGORA-Corporate Affairs Forum successful Athens, recovered that the biggest risks that firm affairs officials successful section companies comprehend are geopolitical uncertainty astatine 60.4%, governmental instability successful Greece astatine 51% and regulatory uncertainty astatine 45.1%. A remarkably debased 2% are acrophobic astir artificial intelligence.

“A alteration successful authorities means ‘back to zero,’ creating insecurity successful the firm environment,” explained Marieangela Economopoulou, caput of outer affairs & diligent value entree for Greece, Cyprus and Malta astatine TAKEDA Hellas, speaking astatine 1 of the event’s panels.

Similarly, 66.7% of firm affairs professionals accidental 2026 will beryllium a year of geopolitical uncertainty, and for 51.9% accidental it will beryllium a year of home governmental developments.

“The predictability of the regulatory model has improved importantly successful caller years,” argued Andreas Yannopoulos, the laminitis of AGORA and caput of the Public Affairs and Networks company, earlier conceding that this does not use to the pharmaceutical assemblage that TAKEDA belongs to. From the aforesaid sector, Antonis Karokis, firm affairs manager astatine MSD, said “we person galore markets with superior distortions that we bash not fix.”

Economopoulou admitted that “over the past two oregon three years there person been some efforts for stability successful our assemblage by the authorities with some success, peculiarly successful the tract of communication.” In information the bulk (51%) of respondents said the state is heading to the close direction, against 43.1% who judge the opposite, while successful the wide nationalist percentages are reversed, said About People CEO Petros Ioannidis.

While instability worries firm officials, the situation of the erstwhile years has prepared them: “We person learned from the situation to run much strategically. There will ever beryllium surprises. It takes strength and resilience to safeguard our companies,” said Katerina Sipitanou, caput of firm and regulatory affairs for Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Malta astatine BAT Hellas.