Panagiotis Lafazanis

Greek State Minister for Coordinating Government Operations Alekos Flambouraris on Thursday in statements to Mega TV appeared reassuring on the liquidity issue. “There is a liquidity issue but we believe that in the immediate future, with the measures we will...

The 12-hour meeting of the SYRIZA parliamentary group was marked by serious disagreements over the Eurogroup deal on Tuesday that extends the bailout program for another four months. The loudest disagreements came from Minister of Productive Reconstruction Panagiotis Lafazanis and...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gathered SYRIZA's Parliamentary Group in order to brief the party's MPs in detail regarding the government's moves since it took office on January 26. Tsipras referred to the difficulties and climate the new government had...

A "constructive" debate centered on the list of reforms the Greek government had earlier sent to the country's loan partners -who approved it- was conducted earlier by the Government Council, according to SYRIZA sources. During the discussion though, there were certain reservations...

Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister, Panagiotis Lafazanis, in two interviews with Greek Sunday newspapers Proto Thema and Realnews, expressed his opinion that the agreement reached on Friday's Eurogroup between the Greek government and the country's Eurozone partners should...

The Greek government will not proceed with the privatizations included in the memorandum or even more so with the fire sales of public assets and businesses, Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said in an interview with...

We support the present Chinese investments in Greece, including COSCO's, and want to make a name for the port of Piraeus as a top hub in transport and commerce globally, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on board the...

Panagiotis Nikoloudis is not a politician, however he was appointed by the new leftist SYRIZA-led government to fight one of Greece's major plights: corruption. The supreme court prosecutor who is now Minister of Transparency and Anti-Corruption is a specialist in economic crime...

The Azeri state energy company SOCAR said no to Greece on three requests made by new Greek Minister of Productive Reconstruction Panagiotis Lafazanis regarding the new Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). In his recent visit to Baku and his meeting with President...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will not announce the name of the candidate for the President of the Hellenic Republic this evening as it was originally scheduled. Analysts say that certain extreme leftist SYRIZA members disagreed over the name of...