Communist Party

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Communist Party (KKE) election stand in Thessaloniki early Saturday.

The local KKE office called the attack on on its stand in Socratous Street “cowardly.”

It is not the first such attack during the campaign for this month’s local and European Parliament elections.

 Politicians round on To Potami backer Nikos Dimou for comment on Easter tradition

Writer Nikos Dimou came in for criticism Wednesday for suggesting that the Holy Fire brought back from Jerusalem each Easter Saturday is not the result of a miracle and that Greece should not spend money on a jet to bring it to Athens.

Despite a rise of 2.2 percentage points in two months, New Democracy trailed SYRIZA in Marc opinion poll published in Eleftherotypia newspaper on Saturday.

The survey for May’s European Parliament elections put the leftists in the lead on 21.8 percent, virtually unchanged from February, and New Democracy in second on 19.7 percent.

BELGRADE - Officials of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) have met in Belgrade to discuss improvements to their cooperation and the development of the two countries' relations.

A dark, spectacular true event turned into a pure Hollywood fantasy. Briefly, that is how one might summarize “Closer to the Moon”, the latest movie by Romanian film director Nae Caranfil, which opens in cinema starting this week.

School guards, cleaning staff and teachers who were placed in a labor pool and are now due to lose their jobs took over City Hall in Athens on Tuesday to protest their plight ahead of a 48-hour strike called by civil servants’ union ADEDY due to start on Wednesday.

Stavros Theodorakis, who has given up journalism to lead a new political party, To Potami, launched his campaign for the European Parliament elections over the weekend with opinion polls showing his movement performing much better than expected.