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Monday's meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and a 15-member committee of farmers from the region of Thessaly in central Greece concluded without substantive answers regarding the timeline for compensating damages caused by last year's floods, according to Rizos Maroudas, president of the United Federation of Agricultural Associations of Larissa.

The government has made significant effort to address farmers' demands, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting with union representatives from the central Thessaly region on Monday, characterizing many of these demands as "fair."

The prospect of obtaining a battery of surface-to-air Patriot missiles from the United States allows Greece to reconsider lifting its objections to providing Ukraine with the idling Soviet-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles now based on the island of Crete.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented flood protection proposals from Dutch experts for Greece's central Thessaly plain to local officials, while playing down concerns about the possible abandonment of cotton farming.

The Tempe train crash will remain at the top of the political agenda for another week, as political parties submit their - divergent - findings to the parliamentary investigative committee, effectively agreeing that they disagree.

The third Upfront Initiative forum, themed "Visibility in Practice," is taking place this Thursday at the Athens Conservatoire (Rigillis & 17-19 Vassileos Georgiou B), under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic.

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Athens Friday to oppose government plans to introduce privately run universities, following weeks of demonstrations including scores of university building occupations by students.

To be fair, the previous significant Education Ministry reform, under a PASOK government, concerning partnerships between Greek and foreign universities, didn't yield substantial results.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday defended a bill allowing, under certain conditions, the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece for the first time, saying that reforms would have a positive knock-on effect on their public counterparts. Lawmakers are set to vote on the bill later in the day.

Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.