How Greece and Ireland Have Been Positioned in the World Developments Since 1945: a French Regulation Approach (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION In a time period where Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows have reached historic highs, Greece's performance on that field has not followed the same direction. On the contrary, FDI in Greece continue to decrease, contrary to what happens to other developed countries of the EU, like Ireland and Portugal. This tendency has resulted to discussions among scholars (11), (14), (28) regarding the roots of this cause. In this respect, this research gives a different approach regarding the causes of this downward tendency, based on the French Regulation approach.