Greece’s Parliament

New developments are unfolding in Greece’s waste management landscape, as landfills are on track to become relics of the past. Waste is now being diverted exclusively toward recycling or biomass production, which can then be converted into energy.

Greece’s parliament voted on Feb. 22 set up a committee that will investigate politicians, including former prime ministers, over allegations of bribery by the Swiss drug maker Novartis.

Greece’s Parliament provided a widely expected vote of confidence to the leftist-dominated SYRIZA coalition government shortly before 2 a.m. on Thursday morning. Of the 299 MPs in Greece’s Parliament, 155 voted in favor, 144 against and 1 abstained. The abstention was that of conservative deputy Nikos Dendias, who sent a letter concerning his opinions which did not count towards the voting.

The Athens Stock Exchange opened on Friday with drop of 0.30 to 0.40 percent and was hovering at the 681-point level amid gitters after another marathon session in Greece’s Parliament to ratify terms of the third memorandum with international creditors.

Political “theatrics” in parliament and the ongoing holiday season kept interest and turnover low.

Greece’s Parliament passed a draft law approving terms for a third bailout memorandum on Friday morning by a margin of 222 in favor to 64 against, after an all-night debate in the legislature confirmed an acrimonious division within the ruling SYRIZA party over the 11th-hour agreement.

Eleven MPs abstained, declaring themselves “present”.

Another …marathon session of Greece’s Parliament is expected on Thursday, as debate began – in an urgent process – over a draft bill that is essentially the third bailout memorandum.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos  on Wednesday spoke by phone with both European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and French President Francois Hollande ahead of a crucial vote in Greece’s Parliament for the third bailout memorandum between Athens and its international creditors.

“We were defeated, by the victory by our opponents was Pyrrhic,” Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said from Parliament’s podium an hour after midnight on Thursday morning, in yet another late, late night debate in Greece’s parliament over bailout terms, conditions and agreements.

Some 10,000 people gathered in front of Greece’s Parliament on Wednesday afternoon to protest against a second package of measures linked to the third Greek bailout, agreed to by the government last week with European creditors.

Sunday, July 5

61.31% of Greek voters rejected the terms of a bailout proposition put forth to Greece by its EU creditors by voting ‘No’ in a fast-track referendum championed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government.

Monday, July 6