Greece's mandatory and suspensory foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime became fully operational on November 11, 2025. Foreign investors must comply with notification requirements and consider review timelines in deal planning.

The Republic of Cyprus' ("RoC") new Foreign Direct Investment Screening Law (the "FDIS Law") will reshape the investment landscape from April 2, 2026, introducing look-back provisions, a screening remit, internal change trigger points, and relatively low notification thresholds.

There have been a number of developments in merger control in 2020 and Q1 2021. Some are related to the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, while others are borne out of the ambitions and changes sought by individual competition authorities or unexpected jurisprudence

The new president of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), Ioannis Lianos, is a well-known academic particularly attuned to public interest issues.