The Greek coalition government has announced their new Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Some of them are completely unknown to most Greek citizens, however.
Evangelos Livieratos will be appointed Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, as Mr E. Venizelos proposed. He has been Professor of geo-navigation and cartography at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with several published articles on cartography in international journals.
Our new Minister of Agriculture will be Athanasios Tsaftaris, a Professor of genetics and plant breeding at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as well. In 2011, he was named an honorary doctor by the University of Sheffield in the UK .
Theodore Papatheodorou will be named Deputy Minister of Education and Culture. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in Law School of Athens University and a master’s degree in criminal justice at the Poitiers University in France. In 1994, he was elected assistant professor of criminal justice at the La Rochelle School in France while he has also worked as professor at the Ionian University and that of Peloponnese.
This three-party coalition government will have some females in leading positions, too. Fotini Skopouli was named Deputy Minister of Health. She has been Professor of Pathology- Immunology at the Harokopio University. Along with Minister Andreas Lykourentzos and Marios Salmas, they have many problems to face as pharmacists are still on strike because Greek state owes them a large sum and so, patients cannot afford to buy their medicines.
George Vernikos was appointed Deputy Minister of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries. What is surprising about this man is that, according to Euro2day, his shipping company was fined 200,000 euros some years ago. The reason for this penalty was that “between 2003 and 2005 Vernikos’ company spread incorrect information about George Leventakis who replaced Mr Vernikos as the company’s head.”
This coalition government consists of 25 New Democracy MPs and 14 non-parliamentary figures. Only 13 people of them have been named ministers or deputy ministers in former government terms while the remaining 26 will be sworn in for the very first time.
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