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Greece’s Supreme Court has forwarded complaints filed by a prosecutor and a mayor to parliament.

“Negotiations on a memorandum of understanding should now progress as swiftly as possible”.

On Monday, the Greek finance minister confirmed following the government council’s meeting on economic policy that the intense talks on technical issues will begin on Tuesday.

Following an emotional debate and early-morning vote, the country’s parliament approved a raft of austerity measures that its worldwide creditors had demanded as a first step before negotiating a final rescue deal.

A final count has revealed the Greek parliament agreed to pass tough austerity reforms in a landslide, in news sure to inflame tensions among protesters.

The Greek parliament approved the measures in a vote, that fractured Mr. Tsipras’s ruling Syriza party, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, only to betray it this week. He suggested, that Greece might be better off, leaving the euro, which would...

The European Central Bank plans to make a decision Thursday on whether to increase the level of so-called emergency liquidity assistance it provides to Greek lenders.

The third bailout for Greece that was agreed upon in the eurozone and euro summit agreements last week in Brussels- and approved by the Greek Parliament, call for €86 billion in new loans for Greece and assumes some of the financing from the worldwide Monetary Fund.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras suffered his second major mutiny in a week, with 36 Syriza MPs defying him to vote against the bill or abstain.

The number of disaffected Syriza MPs, who see the reforms as a betrayal of the anti-austerity platform that brought their left-wing party to power in January, shrunk slightly compared to last week’s similar vote – from 38 to 36.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is widely expected to reshuffle his Cabinet, following a rebellion within his party over a parliament vote to approve painful austerity measures demanded for new bailout talks to start. A large number of Syriza lawmakers are...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out “a classic haircut” – a markdown of Greece’s debts.

The package of measures, which had to be approved to open talks on a new multibillion euro bailout, was passed with 229 votes and 64 against in the 300-seat chamber.

The new ministers are expected to be sworn in on Saturday.

Athens shuttered banks and imposed capital controls at the end of last month, bringing the economy to a virtual standstill and forcing Greeks to queue for hours for cash.