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  1. Greece secures F-35 jets as US tries to appear even-handed following F-16 deal for Turkey
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed on Saturday the US State Department’s decision to give the green light for the sale of Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jets to Greece. In a statement... of Greece and is expected to meet with her counterpart Burak Akçapar on March 11. The two ministers

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  2. Greece deal leaves many questions

    Agora

    shortly thereafter. *Megan Greene is the chief economist at Manulife and John Hancock Asset Management. You can follow her on Twitter: @economistmeg Megan Greene

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  3. Conference on Cyprus: foot-dragging towards a dead end
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    Agora

    . The final stages of the Annan Plan negotiations were held in Bürgenstock. The Conference on Cyprus... of the Cyprus Republic. The ratios provided by the Annan plan were 2:1 for the government and 3:1... for the last 40 years. In fact, the Greek-Cypriots have already overwhelmingly rejected a plan (the Annan

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  4. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since

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  5. Sparks to fly as coalition and SYRIZA clash over electricity sell-off

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    discussion at committee level was due to begin on Wednesday. PPC workers’ union, GENOP-DEI, is opposed.... SYRIZA sees this as an opportunity to strengthen its relationship with GENOP-DEI, one of Greece’s

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  6. Electricity strike nipped in bud, leaving political loose ends

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    threatening the strikers with arrest if they did not return to work. Their union, GENOP-DEI, announced... to end the protest. This swift move to nip GENOP-DEI’s action in the bud seems to have been due

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  7. Privatisation of power transmission firm ADMIE a key challenge among prior actions

    EconomyProgramme

    unions at PPC, particularly the vociferous GENOP group, are strongly opposed to public control of the electricity production and transmission being lost or diluted. GENOP’s allegiance has switched from

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  8. Athens briefed as talks on Cyprus reunification intensify

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    to the ones in 2004 that led to the Annan Plan. He said “the final version of the Annan Plan was proposed

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  9. If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
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    Agora

    productivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which

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  10. Greek train firm TRAINOSE attracts just one bid, no interest in rolling stock
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    Economy

    in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Greek railway company (OSE), which was founded in 1970 and is wholly owned

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