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Greece’s banks have been closed since June 29, a day after the ECB froze its Emergency Liquidity Assistance.

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.

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

The first big development Friday was the news that German lawmakers, in the wake of their Austrian counterparts, voted 439-119 in favor of opening detailed discussions on the bailout package.

Dimitris Vitsas was appointed new alternate defence minister, replacing Costas Isichos, another SYRIZA lawmaker who voted against the agreement. But nearly a fifth of Merkel’s conservatives voted “no” in a blow to the chancellor.

The president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has revealed that his organization was not coerced by China into deleting parts of its latest economic report about the country that highlighted problems in the nation’s financial system.

Other labor market indicators appeared to augur at least a solid report for June.