It is possible that the government will have to ask Parliament for more money for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) package to help euro-zone countries.
The conservative opposition voted against the EU-IMF package, although it has backed some individual measures.
In particular the finance minister's job, which means overseeing a new EU-IMF package of painful reforms, is a poisoned chalice.
The combined EU-IMF package is a substantial one but few imagine that it will be a one-off: on Sunday Reuters news agency quoted a Greek official as saying the country is likely to need a total €80 billion of loans over three years.
The top plot showed the original time series, followed by the IMF series (IMF 1 to IMF 9), and the bottom plot represented the 'residual' series.
The D-mark rose strongly on the news of the IMF-led package for Russia; German banks have lent large amounts to that country.
Hence the boldness of the economic targets in the IMF-sponsored package: the budget deficit is supposed to fall to 2.8% of GDP next year, down from 5.6% this year.
There is certainly a risk that Turkey will retreat into the sort of snarling isolationism and economic doldrums that accompanied the last twin collapse of a government and an IMF-reform package in 1996.
Stock markets across Europe were unsettled by the continuing uncertainty over whether any new administration in Athens will be able to honour the national austerity policy agreed as part of multibillion-pound EU-IMF bailout packages to keep Greece afloat.
One lively debate was the question of whether the $17 billion international bailout of troubled Thailand was a mistake.In international financial circles, the speed with which the IMF-led package of loans was agreed for Thailand is generally taken as evidence that the new arrangements adopted after Mexico's 1995 financial crisis are working well.
