The international view: Is Greece now a bona fide option for foreign investment?

Last week Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made his first visit to the United Nations in New York with a clear message: Greece is open for business again.

As the UK lurches from one Brexit catastrophe to another, with no apparent end to the saga in sight, it could do worse than look back to where Greece was almost a decade ago. 

With the cacophony surrounding the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, many have forgotten the massive shock that hit the Greek economy back in 2010, when the country found itself unable to borrow on financial markets and was forced to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the eurozone. Back then, Greece was facing ruin as the economy plummeted and Grexit loomed. But, as Britain faces its own Euro-crisis, Greece's experience offers hope.

In fact, the UK government should be increasingly looking at Greece as an...