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Over to Estonia now, where the latest Eurogroup meeting is taking place in Tallinn, and where Greece is topping the agenda. Helena Smith reports from Athens

Greece was never meant to top the agenda when eurozone finance ministers met in Tallinn today, but thorny issues that could define progress in prospective bailout negotiations will dominate talks.

The issues will range from the very public licensing row with Eldorado Gold - the Canadian mining company that has threatened to halt operations in Greece - to the unseemly spat over the country’s former statistics agency chief, Andreas Georgiou, who has been dragged through the courts accused of inflating debt figures in a row that has incensed international creditors.

Athens’ leftist-led government wants upcoming bailout talks to be completed by December so that, in the words of prime minister Alexis Tsipras, Greece can make a “clean exit” from international supervision when its third €86bn bailout program ends in August 2018.

Privatisations will be key to success. On Thursday, Greece took another step towards selling its ailing state assets, finally signing the deal to hand over its train company, TrainOSE, to Italy after four years of negotiation. The rail network was sold to Italy’s state run rail network Ferrovie Dello Stato for many have called a paltry sum of €45mn.