Greece Given 72 Hours to Win Trust by Passing Bailout Laws
Tsipras Should Be Able to Get Deal Passed: Hardouvelis
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was given three days to push new austerity measures through parliament and keep alive Greece’s chances of staying in the euro.
Finance ministers meeting in Brussels demanded Greece enact economic reforms before opening detailed negotiations on an aid package of at least 74 billion euros ($83 billion). They left it to the region’s leaders, who started their own session a few hours later, to pin down how far those measures should go. If Tsipras misses that deadline, Greece may be suspended from the currency union, Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb said.