. If after the vote seemed little doubt with input from opposition voices, it is time for the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras knowledge to rely on. In the vote of the first measures, over one fifth of the members of his radical leftist party Syriza had approved the text.
anti-austerity demonstration in Syntagma Square. About 6,000 people, according to police, gathered Wednesday near the parliament, including some 5,000 militants of PAME union, affiliated to the Communist Party. They joined in front of the parliament a group of about 700 protesters who responded to the call of the central union of Public Employees, ADEDY, opposed to a new plan of “barbaric” help. A third group of 300 demonstrators also converged on Parliament behind a banner saying “No to the old and the new memoranda,” the name by which are known in Greece financial aid plan for Greece combined with a drastic austerity.
A priori, the gathering took place in the quiet. A handful of protesters launched late manifestation e few shots and a molotov cocktail towards the police have not responded. Last week, the incidents had taken place between some demonstrators and the police, so that was discussed a first set of measures, much contested (higher taxes and contributions).
The new measures. The bills provide for the adoption of a code of civil procedure, to facilitate the functioning of justice and reduce costs and accelerate the auction procedure. The strengthening of banks’ liquidity, strongly affected by three weeks of closure and the economic crisis, is also on the menu. This closure, as well as capital controls and restrictions on cash withdrawals that remain, despite the reopening of banks Monday, were imposed to prevent a bank collapse amid the negotiations between Athens and its creditors, EU and IMF. The text provides for implementation of a European directive on bank capital guarantees to 100,000 euros.
The ECB raised its emergency aid to Greek banks . The European Central Bank (ECB) raised Wednesday emergency lending ceiling (ELA) granted to Greek banks 900 million euros.
Last Wednesday, two days after the conclusion snatching the agreement between Greece and its creditors, the first measures required by the European partners had been adopted by 229 votes out of the 300 in the Assembly. But the defection of more than one fifth of the members of Syriza has pushed the government majority 162 –149 Syriza MPs and 13 Anel -. 123 voice
Alexis Tsipras blasted slingers. Six months after coming to power, he ruled out the government last week, ministers who refused to accept austerity measures in contravention of all the promises made by Syriza. The spokesman of the government has wanted reassuring Wednesday, saying that “the climate was better than last week in the majority. Olga Gerovasili acknowledged, however, that if the division remained the radical left party “two strategies, two views (…) it may be impossible to go on.”
The 80 billion should be made available by “the second half of August.” In the wake of this vote of deputies, Athens and its creditors will resume floor on the terms of the third aid package of around 80 billion euros. The European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said on Wednesday that Brussels was finalizing a plan by “the second half of August.” Greece has virtually the same schedule in the lead as the country whose coffers are empty, must pay 3.19 billion euros to the European Central Bank (ECB) on August 20, before the IMF 1.5 billion in September.
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