Panagiotis Lafazanis

SYRIZA's Central Committee and Parliamentary Group unanimously passed a resolution urging the Greek government not to submit to "memorandum-style" agreements. The resolution notes that the government has for four months refused "shameful ultimatums" but stressed that this does not mean that...

Addressing SYRIZA's Central Committee meeting on Sunday, Productive Reconstruction Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis accused Greece's creditors of "the harshest, open blackmail" in their handling of the negotiations with the Greek government. The head of SYRIZA's Left Platform strongly criticized the European...

BRICS is the new catchword that plays in the lips of SYRIZA leftist hardliners. All of a sudden, a new international development bank will give Greece loans without any obligations. At least that's what Alternate Minister for Social Security Dimitris Stratoulis believes....

"Europe's problem is not the cursed left party. It is the European intransigence that is leading the negotiation to a deadlock and not the supposedly obsolete obsessions of our country. There are many and powerful circles in the EU...

The SYRIZA "leftist platform" didn't take the sudden positive developments in negotiations very well after Wednesday's joint statement of lenders that they will help Greece achieve financial stability and growth. The party's hard leftists, led by Minister of Productive Reconstruction,...

Greek Minister of Production Reconstruction Panagiotis Lafazanis alluded that SYRIZA should hand over power, if the government is not able to secure an austerity-free program. The Left Platform leader gave an interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, where he noted...

Greek Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis gave a controversial interview in which he claims that an "honorable deal" is impossible and it is better for Greece to leave the European Union and seek alliances elsewhere. Lafazanis,...

The Energy Ministers of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the construction of a gas interconnection grid, which is scheduled to begin on March 2016 and completed by the end of 2018. According to Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova,...

Colossal Russian energy company Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said his country guarantees annual supplies of up to 47 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Central Europe through transit infrastructure to be constructed in Greece. "The Greek government is supporting the project...

SYRIZA cabinet members have leaked scenarios of snap elections or referendum if Greece does not come up with an agreement with creditors until June, when the bailout extension expires. Sources close to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that this is not...