The SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government late on Saturday passed the 2017 budget in Parliament with 152 votes.

The government’s 2017 state budget has a “strongly recessionary character” although the effects might be somewhat offset by a change in economic climate if the program review is completed, the parliamentary budget office said on Wednesday in its report on the draft submitted by the government.
The draft budget is currently being discussed at the parliament’s economic committee.