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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] The Thursday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance

[02] Eurogroup gives final approval to disbursement of tranche to Greece

[01] The Thursday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance

The Thursday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance

The Eurogroup meeting in the afternoon that was expected to approve the disbursement of a 34.5 billion euro tranche of an EU/IMF bailout package to Greece, the withdrawal of a regulation drastically cutting back the salary privileges of parliamentary employees after the latter called a sudden strike over the cutbacks, the assignment of the management of the state lotteries to the OPAP-Scientific Games consortium for the next 12 years and the deregulation of tuition fees in private schools were the main front-page items in Athens' dailies on Thursday.

AVGHI: "A drop in the bucket for debt and liquidity".

DIMOKRATIA: "Double defeat for Stournaras (Finance Minister)".

EFIMERIDA TON SYTAKTON: "Lives out on the street - Study on the homeless".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Provocative 'political favor' to parliamentary employees".

ELLADA: "Total recall of Kokkalis in the state lotteries".

ESTIA: "The deliberations are ineffective".

ETHNOS: "New mutiny over the privileges in parliament".

IMERISSIA: "Signal for re-start (of economy)".

KATHIMERINI: "New blackmail in parliament".

KERDOS: "The tranche finally coming".

LOGOS: "Tuition fees being deregulated".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "The capital being sought to cover the debt buy-back".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Intensification of the popular struggle to avert the Public Power Corporation's (PPC) price hikes".

TA NEA: "Tax-revelation - The 'smart-alecs' and 'fools' of the Tax Bureau".

VRADYNI: "Auxiliary pensions after the latest cuts".

6DAYS: "Provopoulos (central Bank of Greece governor) belies the government".

[02] Eurogroup gives final approval to disbursement of tranche to Greece

The eurozone Finance Ministers gave their final approval on Thursday to disburse a 34 billion euro tranche of the aid loan to Greece, a spokesman for Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker announced after the meeting.

"The meeting has been completed. The disbursement of the economic aid has been accepted," the spokesman said.

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