{"id":13803,"date":"2026-03-29T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/greece-braces-for-the-economic-fallout-from-the-iran-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:32:10","slug":"greece-braces-for-the-economic-fallout-from-the-iran-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/greece-braces-for-the-economic-fallout-from-the-iran-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1299487\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                            <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/podcast_greek_current-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"480\" class=\"picture-main-post-image\" alt=\"Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/podcast_greek_current-768x480.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <\/source><\/picture>\n                                <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Nikos Vettas, John Psaropoulos, and Yiannis Tsakalos join Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at how the ongoing crisis in the Middle East is impacting Greece\u2019s overall economic outlook, what steps the government is taking in response to this crisis, and what this could mean for Greece\u2019s tourism sector as tourists factor wider global uncertainty into their travel plans. In our \u201cI am HALC\u201d segment, we\u2019re putting the spotlight on Jonathan Vasdekas, an original member of HALC\u2019s Leadership 2030 class and a leader in the renewable energy space.<\/p>\n<p>A little more info on our guests:<\/p>\n<p>Vettas is the general director of Greece\u2019s Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) and a professor economics and business at Athens University.<\/p>\n<p>Psaropoulos is an independent journalist and Al Jazeera\u2019s correspondent in southeast Europe. He publishes Hellenica, a weekly deep dive into Greek current affairs and history that you can find on Substack.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tsakalos is a professsional with over 30 years of experience in tourism and hospitality. He has worked extensively with hotels and destinations across Greece, and played a key role in shaping tourism strategy at a national level, including contributing to the strategic planning of the Greek National Tourism Organization and the Ministry of Tourism during Covid, helping define the direction of the sector for the years that followed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazy lazy-hidden\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/45945407-36b3-4de1-86f8-d27139af4510?dark=false\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<noscript><iframe height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/45945407-36b3-4de1-86f8-d27139af4510?dark=false\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/multimedia\/podcasts\/1299487\/greece-braces-for-the-economic-fallout-from-the-iran-crisis\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Vettas, John Psaropoulos, and Yiannis Tsakalos join Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at how the ongoing crisis in the Middle East is impacting Greece\u2019s overall economic outlook, what steps the government is taking in response to this crisis, and what this could mean for Greece\u2019s tourism sector as tourists factor wider &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/greece-braces-for-the-economic-fallout-from-the-iran-crisis\/#more-13803\" aria-label=\"Read more about Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/podcast_greek_current.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}