Council of Ministers under Prime Minister Ioannis Sharmawill be held at the Maxim Palace immediately after the inauguration of the provisional government, which will take place at 12:00 at the Presidential Palace.

The ministers will then go to their respective ministries for the handover ceremony.

Recall that the composition of the interim government was announced yesterday afternoon.

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As “K” wrote todayParticular importance was given to the most important nationally important ministries of foreign affairs and defense, where an experienced diplomat with terms of office in Washington and the EU ranks first. Vassilis Cascareliswhile the Department of Defense is an experienced former Deputy Secretary of Defense and former A/GES Alcibiades Stephanis. In the equally critical Ministry of Civil Protection, because of the fires that threaten every summer, the post of minister is occupied by the current deputy minister Evangelos Turnasso that the ministry has continuity, as it knows all the issues. The Ministry of Civil Protection takes over another member of the Armed Forces, Mr. Charalambos Lalouzis, formerly A/GES. The new Minister of Health is very experienced and capable Anastasia Kotanidouprofessor of the department of pulmonology – resuscitation of the medical faculty of EKPA and resuscitator.

In general, the logic by which the provisional government was formed is that the new provisional ministers are directly related to the subject they are taking on. Characteristically, the former rector of the AUCP was the new minister of education. Christos Kittasand the Ministry of Culture is transferred to the artistic director of the National Opera George Kumentakis.

A separate category is the Ministry of Finance, which is headed by a professor of economic analysis and deputy governor of the Bank of Greece. Theodoros Pelagidis. It is no coincidence that this post is considered critical, since, as Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in his letter to Acting Prime Minister Ioannis Sharma, “By the end of June, the European Commission will consider our country’s third request to the Recovery and Resilience Fund for the payment of a total amount of 1.72 billion euros. regarding the part of the “Greece 2.0” subsidies, which is especially important for a country that requires a person with experience, such as Mr. Pelagidis. In addition, the Prime Minister, in the same letter, informs that meetings of the technical levels of the Greek authorities are scheduled for June, coordinated by the General Secretariat, with the relevant levels of the European institutions (European Commission, European Central Bank, ESM) in the context of the third post-program oversight report, which is expected to be completed and published at the end of the third quarter of this year.

Also the new Minister of Development will be Mrs. Eleni Luri-Dendrinuprofessor at Athens University of Economics, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs moves to professor of public law Patrina PaparrigopoulouMinistry of Environment and Energy o Pantelis KaprosProfessor of Energy Economics and Business Studies, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.

Finally, the Minister of State takes over Vasilios Skouris, Professor of Public Law and from 2003 to October 7, 2015 President of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. He served twice as Acting Minister of the Interior in 1989 and 1996. The government representative will be a journalist Ilias Siakandaris.