The leader of Greece’s extreme-right Golden Dawn party and four other of its parliamentarians have been formally charged with membership of a criminal organisation with intent to commit crimes.

Greece’s new government will present “alarming” data on its recession and its unemployment to global debt inspectors this week, in a bid to renegotiate the terms of its bailout.

Greece’s new government will present “alarming” data on its recession and unemployment to international debt inspectors this week in a bid to renegotiate the terms of its bailout agreements, a spokesman said.

Greece’s new prime minister will not be well enough to travel to a critical European Union summit in Brussels after undergoing an eye operation, the government said today.