A stormy all-day debate in parliament on Wednesday culminated in a flimsy majority of 153 MPs approving the harsh austerity package of 13.5bn euros worth of mostly wage, pension and welfare cuts in the next two years, with a further 5bn euros of cutbacks in 2015-16, as dictated by the troika of Greece’s creditors.
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