THE LATEST: Greeks march to show support for staying in euro

Thousands of people are gathering outside the Greek parliament in central Athens to show support for the country's future in the eurozone and the European Union.

It's the latest in a series of peaceful protests organized in recent days by demonstrators friendly to the government's anti-austerity agenda as well as supporters of the country's future within the currency and political union.

Attendees have included, respectively, cabinet ministers and opposition lawmakers.

A rally against public spending cuts on Sunday drew 7,000, about average for such protests.

It's a far cry from the large anti-austerity marches of the past five years, which numbered in the tens of thousands, and often degenerated into intense street fighting between petrol bomb-throwing anarchists and riot police shooting tear gas.

AndĀ Greece's economy minister, Giorgios Stathakis says his country's latest offer of reforms are enough to convince the country's international lenders to provide more loans.

"They have accepted that the new proposal of the Greek government is a proper framework on which to work," he told Britain's BBC.

Stathakis says the proposals include new taxes on business and the wealthy but no further cuts in pensions or public-sector salaries, which was still a "red line" for Greece.

However, Athens will make tougher rules on early retirement and shift some categories of goods to a higher sales tax bracket, including hotels and certain foods. Emergency bailout taxes that had been imposed will remain, despite the Tsipras government's pledge to phase them out, Stathakis said.