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Flights to and from Greece will be halted for four hours on Thursday when air traffic controllers walk off the job to join a public sector walkout against labour reforms.

The stoppage is part of an anti-austerity strike by public sector union ADEDY which called for its half a million members to march to parliament on July 15th as lawmakers will be voting on civil servants' retirement rules.