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Salam also indicated that it Thursday’s cabinet meeting fails to deliver on the current crisis, “then there is no need for the council of ministers”.

The rubbish crisis began in mid-July when residents took it upon themselves to shut down a landfill that had been overflowing for years, leading municipalities to find ad hoc spots to dump rubbish.

Some protesters suffered smoke inhalation and were taken away by ambulances for treatment.

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...

No-one should be under any illusions. “And the situation today shows that these risks remain”. He added: “There is no easy way out”.