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Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis told Agora newspaper on Saturday that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government will either be one of "huge rifts and progressive reversals or it will not have a future."

By Marcus Bensasson & Paul Tugwell

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, facing euro-area demands for a credible economic plan, is fending off allies at home who are spoiling for a fight.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Saturday with the SYRIZA MEPs at Maximos Mansion, at 14.00 local time.

SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) is represented by six deputies in the European Parliament, namely Manolis Glezos, Sophia Sakorafa, Costas Chrisogonos, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Konstantina Kouneva and Stelios Kouloglou.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday referred to a daily "battle" for the next four months, speaking to this ruling SYRIZA party's secretariat.

During an extensive debate on the new loan agreement extension and negotiations between Athens and its creditors, Tsipras reportedly ticked off the government's objectives during negotiations, namely, to:

It was Greek PM Alexis Tsipras' turn on Wednesday to "preach to the choir" as he took the podium to address his Parliament group on the crucial agreement with eurozone creditors, a development that generated the first spate of internal criticism for the one-month-old SYRIZA government.

"Whoever disagrees with the agreement should say so," Tsipras told the party's MPs.

By Deepa Babington & Angeliki Koutantou

A prominent Greek minister defied his government?s pledge to press on with some state asset sales, revealing the first open dissent within Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s coalition and highlighting the tightrope that the leftist premier must walk.

The Greek government is due to present a new list of reforms following Friday's agreement that its bailout program will be extended by four months.

By George Georgiopoulos

Greece's government prepared reform measures on Sunday to secure a financial lifeline from the euro zone, but was attacked for selling «illusions» to voters after failing to keep a promise to extract the country from its international bailout.

The UK daily Independent this week showcased a classic "growth-vs-environment" dilemma that the new Greek government will face head-on in dealing with the controversial Skouries gold mine investment in northern Greece,