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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos today Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

Back in the eurozone, Greek MPs are preparing to vote today on the last omnibus bill of reforms-for-rescue funds the debt-stricken country must take before its current bailout ends.

Helena Smith reports from Athens:

After being the focus of parliamentary debate for much of the week, the multi-bill will be voted on this afternoon. This will be the last time MPs are called to pass deeply unpopular reforms, or ‘prior actions,’ demanded of Athens if it is to successfully complete its last inspection review in time to exit the country’s third bailout in August.

It’s taken the best part of a decade but never again will they have to vote on pension cuts, labour market reforms and energy sector privatisations – all outlined in the bill – to secure the funds needed to keep Greece afloat.

Unions are NOT missing the chance to take to the streets in protest with a barrage of strikes being announced to coincide with the vote. Public sector workers have already begun amassing for a march on parliament.

The leftist-led government, however , is keen to rush through the legislation so that euro area finance ministers can begin discussing debt relief at their next meeting on June 21st.

Addressing MPs, the country’s finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos insisted Greece would not be needing further aid in the form of a precautionary credit line when the foreign funds officially expire.

The governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, has openly opposed that view saying a credit line “even if never used” is essential to the country’s post-bailout return to normality.

“There will not be a precautionary credit line so that you can call it a fourth memorandum,” Tsakalotos told opposition MPs earlier this week using the official term used to describe Greece’s bailout programs.

“What there will be is a system of enhanced surveillance without preconditions, without money and without other measures.”