Greece Approves Second Set of Changes Needed for Bailout

BY SUZANNE DALEY / New York Times

ATHENS, July 22 -Under the threat of yet another deadline, the Greek Parliament approved a second package of policy changes early Thursday that the country’s creditors had said must be in place before the detailed negotiations for an 86-billion-euro bailout could begin.

The new measures, overhauling the banking and judicial systems, passed easily with significant support from opposition parties eager to do whatever it takes to keep Greece from leaving the eurozone. The vote was 230 to 63, with five abstentions and two absences.  Read more

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PHOTO: Alexis Tsipras with Panos Skourletis, the energy minister, at a parliamentary session in Athens. Yiannis Kourtoglou / Reuters

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