A new trafficking hot line, financed through a grant by health and human services, for instance, has taken more than 49,000 calls, connected 5,770 potential victims with services and provided more than 2,155 law-enforcement tips.
Last month the Knesset approved a preliminary law to limit the distribution of Israel HaYom, a free daily with a strong pro-Netanyahu line financed by Sheldon Adelson, an American casino magnate.
The government has acknowledged the crisis by replacing Jorge Giordani, the hard-line finance minister, with Nelson Merentes, a moderate.
On Wednesday Germany's hard-line finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, demanded that Greece stop deluding its people and implement tough reforms quickly, saying the solution to the impasse was "entirely down to Greece".
Meanwhile, Jacob Lew, the American Treasury Secretary, called Alexis Tsipras, Greece's Prime Minister, and he has also spoken to Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, and Wolfgang Schäuble, the hard-line finance minister of Germany.
Rather than adopting the mantle of a European stateswoman, she sided with her hard-line finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, forcing Athens to grovel to its creditors on pain of departure from the eurozone — an option to which the Greek public was opposed.
Rather than adopting the mantle of a European stateswoman, she sided with her hard-line finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, forcing Athens to grovel to its creditors on pain of departure from the eurozone an option to which the Greek public was opposed.
But the wide margin of approval Wednesday, by a tally of 453-113, with 18 abstentions, attested to the chancellor's hold on power and, especially, the influence of her popular hard-line finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of Greece's toughest critics.
It is a four-year program that covers all topics relevant to the hospitality industry, which includes not just hotels, but also "restaurants, casinos, cruise lines, finance, real estate, spas, theme parks, travel and tourism".
Mr. Montalbano said the coalition would then work to get some or all of that money converted to base-line financing in the next budget.
The $22,388 that the coalition received last year is called base-line financing: the amount of money that is written into the city budget at the beginning of the negotiating process each year.
