Big demonstrations are expected in Athens, as the people once again express their anger against the spending cuts, tax rises, and other measures being implemented in return for its aid package.
Remember the Finance Minister's options for getting the votes she needs to pass her budget have reduced sharply in the past month, with the announcement that Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats will jointly negotiate to get their priorities implemented in return for their votes.
The following summer, at a conference of Afghanistan's biggest donors in Tokyo, the Afghan government promised, among other things, to implement those recommendations in return for sixteen billion dollars in aid pledges through 2015.
The tenure of the current prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, has been marked by the three-year austerity programme the government had to implement in 2011 in return for €78bn (then £70bn) bailout funds.
The Greek government surprised everybody on Thursday by submitting a proposal to Greece's international creditors that would implement severe austerity measures in return for new bailout funds.
Four years later, it has left the bailout scheme but only after implementing stringent austerity measures in return for funding.
In recent months, the party has raised money for charitable causes from prominent businessmen who during the years of military rule were known as "cronies" because they helped implement the junta's projects in return for favors.
Hungary received a €20 billion ($25.5 billion) support fund in 2008 in return for implementing a stringent fiscal-consolidation programme.
There is also the danger that contagion could again ripple out from Athens to Ireland and Portugal, which are already implementing their own austerity programmes in return for financial help.
