Yanis Varoufakis

"Public enemy - A Greek Tragedy" is the title of a new documentary about the 2010 Greek financial crisis that depicts Greece as an ideological victim of European Union forces punishing the country with austerity measures.

As SYRIZA continues to struggle in the polls, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Olga Gerovasilis and Thanasis Theocharopoulos of the “87” faction urged party leader Stefanos Kasselakis to initiate internal polls to facilitate the election of a new leader.

Ruling New Democracy won the majority of votes from Greeks participating from abroad in Sunday's European Parliament elections, according to data released Monday. 

New Democracy enjoys a 15.1-point lead over its main rival SYRIZA, an opinion poll has found.

Conducted by Marc for ANT1 TV, the poll of voting intentions in Sunday's European Parliament election put the governing conservative party on 29.8%, left-wing SYRIZA on 14.8% and socialist PASOK on 9.8%.

German police cut the power and shut down a conference of pro-Palestinian activists on Friday after a banned speaker appeared by video link, organisers said.

The three-day Palestine Congress, promoted by pro-Palestinian groups including former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's DIEM25 party, said it aimed to raise awareness of what it called Israel's "genocide" in Gaza.

His political career lasted over half a century; it was full of crises, scandals, even an assassination attempt. But some of the most dramatic passages in the memoirs of Wolfgang Schaeuble (September 18,1942 - December 26, 2023) concern Greece.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called upon Israel's allies, particularly the United States, to cease arms supplies amidst escalating violence in Gaza. Borrell's bold stance comes in the wake of mounting casualties and humanitarian concerns stemming from Israeli military actions, as reported by Al Jazeera.

Former SYRIZA heavyweight Dimitris Vitsas has said that a new political entity could be formed in anticipation of the upcoming European elections.

Vitsas, a former party secretary, recently parted ways with the main opposition, which is grappling with internal discord following the election of new leader Stefanos Kasselakis.

A second opinion poll in as many days as indicated that main opposition SYRIZA is less than two points ahead of third-place socialist PASOK, while ruling New Democracy remains way ahead.

An acrimonious public conflict has broken out between erstwhile allies SYRIZA and the former leader of the nationalist ANEL party, Panos Kammenos, who were partners in government between 2015 and 2019.