Andreas Taprantzis

The car rental market in Greece is showing satisfactory growth rates, as from 60,000 a few years ago, the number of vehicles available has now exceeded 100,000. Avis alone acquired 10,000 new cars last year, accounting for 10 percent of all new car registrations in 2018.

Andreas Taprantzis has stepped down as executive director at Greece's privatization agency TAIPED, a statement said Wednesday.
The reasons for his resignation were not made public.
TAIPED said Taprantzis's resignation will go into effect on November 1st, ... ...

By Maria Petrakis

On a mountain named for the Prophet Elijah on the Greek island of Rhodes, one of Benito Mussolini’s most trusted aides built a villa to provide the Italian dictator with a home in his old age.

By Sharon Smyth

Greece is preparing a property portfolio valued at as much as 500 million euros ($689 million) to offer to investors by the end of this year, according to the head of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund.

The Elliniko development will open to the public in three years’ time, with work starting in 2015 when Lamda Development pays its first installment to the state for the coastal plot, privatization fund TAIPED told a press conference on Thursday.

“The added value for the country is huge,” TAIPED head Constantinos Maniatopoulos said.