Legislation is crucial to eurogroup finance ministers agreeing to disburse further loans from Greece's third, €86bn bailout on May 22. Athens faces debt repayments of €7.5bn in early July – dues it could not honour without the emergency assistance.
A week later, having listened to Morsi's promises, I wrote: "Maybe, maybe, we have voted in a president whom we can support, or oppose with honour – without being shot".
This could prove to be the one pledge in its manifesto that the BJP would honour without compromise, partly because it believes that by openly going nuclear India would become an unignorable player on the world stage, partly because the policy would arouse little opposition at home.
Yiannis Mouzakis (@YiannisMouzakis) Meanwhile, the other welcoming event #9ogr twitter.com/YiannisMouzaki… October 9, 2012 Updated at 12.10pm BST 11.53am BST Having negotiated the welcoming guard of honour without mishap Angela Merkel, Antonis Samaras and their entourages have driven off to the prime minister's official residence in Athens.
What's new is that Scaf has revealed its hand in its latest round of legalised power-grabbing; that we know the size of the support the old regime can muster; and that maybe, maybe, we have voted in a president whom we can support, or oppose with honour – without being shot.
"It is a massive honour for me to be recognised like this - it is not often that a cyclist is honoured without winning an Olympic medal," said the 26-year-old from he Isle of Man.
"This is an incredible honour," added Ainslie, who will attempt to win the Americas Cup in 2013, "I couldn't have achieved this honour without the support of all the people who have helped me throughout my career and so I hope they can also take some pride in this moment".
Washington and other NATO powers must also find a way to reassure increasingly flustered Eastern European states - particularly the former Soviet Baltics - that their defence guarantees will be honoured, without escalating tensions.
