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Wed, Feb 08 2012
Greek prime minister Papandreou’s cabinet sworn in
Greek prime minister George Papandreou.
Greece’s new cabinet headed by prime minister George Papandreou was sworn in on October 7 2009.
The new government has 36 members, 14 ministers and 22 deputy ministers, a reduction in the size of government as promised by the Pasok leader during his campaign for the country’s October 4 snap parliamentary elections.
Greek daily Kathimerini said that 24 of the new members of the government had no previous ministerial experience, while nine were women, a very large proportion by Greek standards.
Papandreou appointed himself foreign minister, a portfolio he held in a previous Pasok government.
He named Theodoros Pangalos, a party veteran, as his deputy prime minister. Pangalos will be responsible for co-ordination of the foreign policy and defence committee and the economic and social policy committee.
The finance minister is George Papaconstaninou (49) a trained economist who studied at NYU and the London School of Economics and who has worked for the OECD and Louka Katseli (57), a Princeton economics graduate and former associate professor of economics at Yale who was special adviser on economics to Papandreou’s father Andreas when he was prime minister from 1993 to 1996, and who also has worked for the OECD, was named economy, competitiveness and shipping minister.
Evangelos Venizelos was named defence minister, a surprise for many considering that he was formerly a rival to George Papandreou for the leadership of Pasok.
The minister of interior, decentralisation and e-governance is Yiannis Ragoussis, Pasok secretary and a close associate of Papandreou. The citizens protection ministry, which takes over public order matters from the interior ministry is headed by Michalis Chrysochoidis, a former public order minister
The full list is:
Prime minister, and foreign minister: George Papandreou
Deputy prime minister: Theodoros Pangalos
Interior minister: Yiannis Ragoussis
Finance minister: George Papaconstaninou
Defence minister: Evengelos Venizelos
Economy, competitivness and shipping minister: Louka Katseli
Environment, energy and climate change minister: Tina Birbili
Education minister: Anna Diamantopoulou
Infrastructure, transport and networks: Dimitris Reppas
Labour and social insurance minister: Andreas Loverdos
Health and social solidarity: Mariliza Xenogianakopoulo
Agricultural development and food minister: Katerina Batzeli
Justice, transparency and human rights minister: Haris Kastanidis
Citizens protection minister: Mihalis Chrysohoidis
Culture and tourism minister: Pavlos Geroulanos
Minister of state to the prime minister: Haris Bamboukis
Deputy minister to the prime minister and government spokesperson: Giorgos Petalotis
The new government has 36 members, 14 ministers and 22 deputy ministers, a reduction in the size of government as promised by the Pasok leader during his campaign for the country’s October 4 snap parliamentary elections.
Greek daily Kathimerini said that 24 of the new members of the government had no previous ministerial experience, while nine were women, a very large proportion by Greek standards.
Papandreou appointed himself foreign minister, a portfolio he held in a previous Pasok government.
He named Theodoros Pangalos, a party veteran, as his deputy prime minister. Pangalos will be responsible for co-ordination of the foreign policy and defence committee and the economic and social policy committee.
The finance minister is George Papaconstaninou (49) a trained economist who studied at NYU and the London School of Economics and who has worked for the OECD and Louka Katseli (57), a Princeton economics graduate and former associate professor of economics at Yale who was special adviser on economics to Papandreou’s father Andreas when he was prime minister from 1993 to 1996, and who also has worked for the OECD, was named economy, competitiveness and shipping minister.
Evangelos Venizelos was named defence minister, a surprise for many considering that he was formerly a rival to George Papandreou for the leadership of Pasok.
The minister of interior, decentralisation and e-governance is Yiannis Ragoussis, Pasok secretary and a close associate of Papandreou. The citizens protection ministry, which takes over public order matters from the interior ministry is headed by Michalis Chrysochoidis, a former public order minister
The full list is:
Prime minister, and foreign minister: George Papandreou
Deputy prime minister: Theodoros Pangalos
Interior minister: Yiannis Ragoussis
Finance minister: George Papaconstaninou
Defence minister: Evengelos Venizelos
Economy, competitivness and shipping minister: Louka Katseli
Environment, energy and climate change minister: Tina Birbili
Education minister: Anna Diamantopoulou
Infrastructure, transport and networks: Dimitris Reppas
Labour and social insurance minister: Andreas Loverdos
Health and social solidarity: Mariliza Xenogianakopoulo
Agricultural development and food minister: Katerina Batzeli
Justice, transparency and human rights minister: Haris Kastanidis
Citizens protection minister: Mihalis Chrysohoidis
Culture and tourism minister: Pavlos Geroulanos
Minister of state to the prime minister: Haris Bamboukis
Deputy minister to the prime minister and government spokesperson: Giorgos Petalotis
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She was Albania... She's Greek now.
"Environment, energy and climate change minister: Tina Birbili"
she is albanian :D
i am from america and i admire your choices of leaders. i hope he will do what he says he will.
Curious to see what kind of steps he will do to solve those long-time and "locked" issues (meaning if they will be one day ever solved...).
Papandreou takes the Foreign Ministry.
To those familiar with Greek affairs means that the government
streses the importance of major issues like Turkey and FYROM.