The first issue of Viomichaniki Epitheorissis’ “Industrial Review Special Survey Series” made its debut on December 1991.

A quarterly financial issue in English, containing extensive surveys on individual sectors of the Greek economy, written by Robert McDonald – former correspondent of the BBC and other international media networks & author of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s quarterly Country Report on Greece.

In 1998 it was updated and renamed “Business File Special Survey Series”.

The energy sector: an ever-changing story

The energy sector has always been of high importance, but also of high pressure (and thus of high nervousness) for Greece. In the March 2002 Business File analysis of Bob McDonald, one meets the constants of high import-dependence for Greece as well as of shifting to new sources of primary energy inputs. Energy security already emerges as a matter of concern, while the environmental issue is somewhere in the background.