Over 1000 companies from 26 countries have applied for participation in the 72 - day International Technical Fair in Thessaloniki from 6 to 14 September. The official state holdings are 15 - Albania, Brazil, India, Hungary, Turkey, South Africa, Taiwan, France, Italy, USA, Cyprus, Pakistan, Romania, Syria, Ukraine. This year the event is structured in 12 thematic exhibitions with a variety of parallel events, a national presentation is in the form of Global Exchange. Common closed and open exhibition area is above 40 700 sq.m. It announced a special press conference Aristotelis Tomopulos, president of organizer HELEXPO.

The companies involved are from 25 countries, including Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Jordan, Israel, Kenya, China, Montenegro, Pakistan, Serbia, Czech Republic, Turkey and others. For the third time will be an international business forum, which some participants are invited as speakers and Jordan Ayan, Rene Karayol, Kate Feratsi, Richard Riyvz. Last year visitors were over 260 thousand people.

Among the thematic areas are AUTOLAND - cars, FASHION FORWARD INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI - fashion, DISC FESTIVAL - a national music festival. ACADEMIA salon is dedicated to training and postgraduate training with the presentation of different universities. INNOVATION is a thematic forum for technological innovation and be prepared by the Ministry of Economy, which includes the areas of multimedia innovations, biomeditsina, biokultivatsiya, water systems and savings in the form of five theme parks with a total motto "The power of light - 1. Where the light comes 2. What is light 3. The laser - a special light 4. How light works in the everyday 5. Games with light.

HOBBYMANIA is thematically event for free time and talents, ENERGYLAND will present developments in refrigeration and climate case fotovoltaichnite systems and sources of renewable energy and energy saving. DECOLAND prezentira new solutions for manufacturers of seasonal products, decoration and furnishing. ECOPOLIS is aimed at technology and building a modern city in accordance with the latest environmental features. REAL ESTATE EXPO exhibition is real estate, which is already several years reflects the development of the sector.

Bulgarian-Greek economic relations are characterized by high levels of transactions and the large amount of Greek investments - 2,215 billion on the data of the Bulgarian National Bank at the end of 2007, while Bulgaria is among the largest importers of Greek goods. Greek investments in the banking sector with five banking groups in metallurgy with "Stomana Industry, in staklarskoto production of" Yula voice ", tsimentoproizvodstvoto -" Titan cement, the energy sector, the clothing industry, hotels, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of building materials, wood, chemicals, marble, business insurance, real estate and others. GEK - Terna perform the contract elektrifikatsiyata of Plovdiv railway line - about 87 million Svilengrad euro contracts for various infrastructure projects are implemented by Greek companies like J & B Avax, Themeliodomi, Prodeftiki, DOMOKAT. In tendering procedures are involved large companies like Mochlos and Aktor. Bulgaria receives assistance from the Greek State program HIPERB (Hellenic Program for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans) to 54.29 million 13 euro project.

Greek government continues to seek opportunities to generate investment by the private sector - concessions to manage public facilities such as ports and other infrastructure. In March m.g. 2.5 billion were approved euros for public-private projects (PPP) in infrastructure for fire stations, court buildings and schools, which largely as possible after the introduction of the Public-Private Partnerships in 2005 Specially-created administrative unit manage and monitor the sector and has the right to approve projects and to proceed to their implementation without the sanction of parliament. The first group of PPP projects in the country were 27 schools in Athens and the Attica region valued at 150 million euro. This form was used by governments and some of the facilities for the forthcoming Olympic games in 2004 Having Olimpiyskoto town.

Greece occupies 132 thousand sq. km with a population of 11 million people, 3.7 million of whom live in the capital Athens. The country is a member of NATO from 1952 on and the European Union, 1981 and has important economic situation onto three seas - the Aegean, Mediterranean and Yoniysko with neighbours Turkey, Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria. The main economic sectors are tourism, maritime affairs, food industry, textiles, chemicals, metaloprerabotvane, mining and oil industry with major foreign partners Germany, Italy, France, Britain and the United States.

Thematic areas of the exhibition