As part of a controversial package of austerity measures, the Greek<br />government is currently promoting several privatization projects.<br />Greece will be looking to sell stakes in betting monopoly OPAP and<br />offer and in oil refining giant Hellenic Petroleum to help cut the<br />country's debt. Costas Mitropoulos, the chief executive officer of<br />Greece's privatization agency, said that the government is also<br />offering investors ports, airports and several development projects,<br />including a highway linking a sea port in western Greece to Turkey.<br />Israeli investors have already expressed interest in a number of Greek<br />assets that are being privatized.
