Popular Unity

A survey ordered by the European Parliament on the strength of parties in all EU member-states in the run-up to May's European Parliament election shows that New Democracy maintains an 11.3 percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA.

The leader of the far-left Popular Unity party Panayiotis Lafazanis said on Wednesday he refused to provide answers to investigators after he was summoned to Attica Police Headquarters over his alleged illegal possession and use of a gun during protests against foreclosures on the properties of overindebted Greeks.

The leader of the far-left Popular Unity party Panagiotis Lafazanis has been summoned by Attica police authorities to answer charges of illegal gun use and possession.

The summons is part of a wider investigation ordered by an Athens prosecutor into protests against foreclosures on the properties of overindebted Greeks.

Members of the far-left, anti-bailout Popular Unity party, led by former SYRIZA minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, gathered outside a notary's office in central Athens on Wednesday to protest against foreclosures on the properties of overindebted Greeks.

Five people were injured on Wednesday during clashes between police and protesters at a demonstration outside a notary's office in central Athens.

The offices of the Popular Unity party, a radical offshoot of leftist SYRIZA created by former government heavyweight Panagiotis Lafazanis after he split from the administration, are going under the hammer.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos recently rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier, he met with businesspeople, fund managers and representatives of the financial markets, and spoke at the Invest in Greece Capital Link Forum.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted on Friday that Greece's "adventure" will be over by the end of August 2018.

"This is our aim and perhaps for the first time this is not an elusive dream, but a reality," he said an interview with French paper Le Figaro in Paris.

Former energy minister Panayotis Lafazanis, who left SYRIZA in the summer of 2015 to set up a new leftist, pro-drachma party, said on Saturday that when he was in government he agreed with Moscow that Russia would make a downpayment for a gas pipeline so the money could be used to finance Greece if it left the euro.

The popularity of Greece's left-wing prime minister is in free fall, according to a poll published late Monday which also showed opposition New Democracy extending its lead over ruling SYRIZA party to 15 points.