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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Greek lawmakers to vote on loose ends of bailout programme for funds

[A protester waves a Greek flag during a demonstration outside the parliament building in central Athens]After a week of talks, mainly caused by Greek resistance to the unpopular reforms, some of the pending issues have been postponed to September. The government, which has a narrow majority of 153 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament, hopes the approval of the measures will quell concerns about the country's fiscal progress, open the way for debt relief and help its banks regain access to cheap borrowing from the European Central Bank. Cash-strapped Greek banks, meanwhile, were waiting for a meeting of the European Central Bank's decision-making body, also on Thursday.


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