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Greece says EU help just an airport sale away
Parvez Jabri
07 Jun, 2016
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Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2016
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![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2016/06/greece-flag-june.jpg">ATHENS: Greece said it will on Tuesday relaunch the sale of a former airport in a privatisation that Athens expects will quickly unblock a new tranche of EU funding.</P><P>The government is to sign a memorandum of understanding for the sale of Athens's former airport Hellinikon to a consortium made up of Al Maabar of Abu Dhabi, Chinese company Fosun and Greece's Lamda, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili said.</P><P>The sale is valued at 915 million euros ($1 billion) and comes with a 99-year lease to build a tourist resort outside Athens.</P><P>The operation was suspended after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power in 2015.</P><P>Progress on the sale is )
