Greece's parliament has passed a package of unpopular pension and tax reforms. The Greek government hopes the measures will help persuade official creditors to release bailout cash.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' coalition, which has a thin parliamentary majority, secured enough votes to pass the reforms. All 153 lawmakers in the left-right ruling coalition voted in favour of the bill. But no opposition lawmakers supported it.

Sunday's vote came after a two-day heated debate and amid protests and strikes by labour unions. And on Monday, the euro zone's 19 finance ministers will meet to discuss Greece's reform program and a set of contingency measures for achieving fiscal targets in 2018.