Costas Mitropoulos

Greece appointed a former banker to run its privatization agency on Wednesday in a bid to breathe life into the stumbling programme of asset sales that are a key condition of the international bailouts keeping the country afloat. The government...

The chief executive of Greece΄s privatization agency, Costas Mitropoulos, has resigned, two government officials told Reuters. The new conservative-led government has made reviving the long-delayed privatization drive a key part of its efforts to turn around the recession-hit economy, but...