THE GREEK PARLIAMENT HAS APPROVED contentious new austerity measures and economic reforms.
Outrage over the proposed budget cuts had sparked volatile protests earlier Sunday evening.
Parliament narrowly passed the governing coalition’s latest budget proposal, which includes more belt-tightening and economic reforms.
The 153 lawmakers of the ruling Syriza/Independent Greeks government coalition all voted for the bill.
All opposition members in the 300 seat parliament opposed the bill.
The vote came on a day that police clashed with angry demonstrators on the streets of Athens, the latest in a series of ongoing protests and crippling general strikes that have beset the country.
