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The Full Breakdown Of Greece's New Cabinet
Alexis Tsipras has announced his new cabinet to lead Greece forward - with or without Europe. As was expected the economist Yanis Varoufakis was given the key position of Finance Minister, and another influential economist, Nikos Dragasakis was appointed Deputy Prime Minister...
Alexis Tsipras has reorganized the government, merging several ministries and creating new bodies, such as the Anti Corruption office to be led by Panos Nikoloudis.
The full cabinet:
Prime Minister - Alexis Tsipras
Deputy Prime Minister – Nikos Dragasakis
Minister of State: Nikos Pappas
Deputy Minister of State: Terence Quick
Parliamentary Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou
Minister of State to Coordinate Government Operations: Alekos Flambouris
Minister of State to Combat Corruption: Panagiotis Nikoloudis
Government Spokesperson: Gavril Sakellaridis
Ministry of Interior and Administrative Restructuring
Minister: Nikos Voutsis
Deputy Ministers:
- Giorgos Katrougalos (Administrative Restructuring)
- Yiannis Panousis (Protection of Citizens)
- Maria Kollia Tsaroucha (Macedonia / Thrace)
- Tasia Christodoulopoulou (Immigration Policy)
Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism
Minister: Giorgos Stathakis
Deputy Ministers:
- Theodoris Dritsas (Shipping)
- Elena Kountoura (Tourism)
- Christos Spirtzis (Infrastructure, transport and networks)
Ministry of Productive Reconstruction of the Environment and Energy
Minister: Panagiotis Lafazanis
Deputy Ministers:
- Yiannis Tsironis (Environment)
- Vangelis Apostolou (Agricultural Development)
- Panagiotis Sgouridis
Ministry of Culture and Education
Minister: Aristeidis Baltas
Deputy Ministers:
- Nikos Xydakis (Culture)
- Tasos Kourakis (Education)
- Kostas Fotakis (Research and Innovation)
- Stavros Kontonis (Sports)
Ministry of Finance
Minister: Yanis Varoufakis
As a gentle reminder, here is Yanis explaining the plan...
As Varoufakis previously explained,
The Troika is trying to suffocate us and to put pressure on the democratic choice by telling us: either you follow our requirements, or you will be cast into hell.
They actually have their own threats as exogenous circumstances of the situation, as they are simply part. They are trying to terrorize the Greek voters.
Doesn't seem like much middle-ground there.
But if no agreement is possible, or found?
So I say this clearly: “Death is preferable. “The real deficit in Greece, it is a dignity deficit. It is because of this lack of dignity that we have accepted stupid measures and this has fueled a vicious cycle of indignity which itself maintains discontent, fear and resentment. All this is not good. We must regain our dignity, spirit, October 28, 1940 made ??us say “no” to the ultimatum of Mussolini’s Italy. At this time, we do not have the means to say “no” and yet we did. (Note: 28 October 1940, the Greek dictator Metaxas refused by a “no” legendary submit to the Italian ultimatum In the war that followed, the Greeks pushed the Italian army. ). We must recapture the spirit of 28 October.
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Deputy Ministers:
- Nadia Valavani
- Kostas Mardas
Ministry of Health and Social Security
Minister: Panagiotis Kouroublis
Deputy Ministers:
- Andreas Xanthos (Health)
- Dimitris Stratoulis (Social Security)
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Minister: Panos Scourletis
Deputy Ministers:
- Rania Antonopoulou (Unemployment)
- Theano Fotiou
Ministry of Defense
Minister: Panos Kammenos
Deputy Ministers:
- Kostas Isichos
- Nikos Toskas
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Nikos Kotzias
Deputy Ministers:
- Nikos Chountis (European Affairs)
- Efkleidis Tsakalotos (International Relations)
Ministry of Justice
Minister: Nikos Paraskevopoulos
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Someone needs to publish a family tree and connect the dots.
I wonder how many of them are jews...
The masses are brute and ignorant, and most followers of this blog seems to honor that assertion.
"The Full Breakdown Of Greece's New Cabinet"
"Greece's new Cabinet fully breaks down".
fixed.
lol ZH has lost its mind thinking these are good guys.
Bathhouse was gonna go after the oligarchy too. lulz
The Full Breakdown Of Greece's New Cabinet
What???
They just won the election 2 days ago, and their new cabinet has already broken down???!!!
[They must have bought it at IKEA...]
What I see here is a breakdown of ZH infiltrators. (Mostly newbies)
I guess I'm a sucker, because I'm still holding on to the admittedly naive hope that through their deeds these guys will actually display the integrity that they've been portrayed to have. Time will tell.
"By their deeds you will know them."
Take a look at Kotzias:
Nikos Kotzias, Professor of Political Theories of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus, was speaking about a "parallel" business of interests that contributed on writing the Memorandum.
NO COKE, NO COKE! PEPSI!! CHEEBUHGAH CHEEEBUHGAH CHEEBUHGAH!
You like-a the juice?
not many as most of them are demi gods
How many are nanny-state loving collectivist bureaucrats?
Minister of State to Combat Corruption: Should be required by every country
Anyone else try to read some of the long Greek last names and just kind of make a "plrblflrklis" noise instead? It must be a bitch as a kid trying to learn how to spell your own last name if it's something like Christodoulopoulou or Papastathopoulos.
One is not like the others.
Who the fuck is Terrance Quick?
A good Greek name always ends in S or U.
Terence quick was born in Thessaloniki , Greece , 1947.
http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Terence_Quick
Now you can take your head out of your bunghole.
I dont see any Goldman Sachs clan in there......who has the dart board.....
Belgian pedophile media is sooooo ripping on Greece right now. Methinks they are scared.
Bring in the clowns.
I give them 3 month at max before a new election. We´ll see a Nazi government after that, followed by a military coup soon after that.
Are you long piano chords?
Face it, military dictatorship is the only form of government that really works in countries like Greece.
Whenever Greece managed to achieve something in its history it was under some form of dictatorial government. If successful though, other countries will soon follow. It will be just like the 30s.
Yup. Even the so called "Athenian democracy" 2500 years ago has been nothing but a brutal military dictatorship over all the other Greeks.
The connection between Athenian democracy with the present system, where anyone and anything that can fog a mirror can vote is beyond me. This Greek democracy thing having something in common with the clusterfuck we have today is just a distortion of the facts. But still, Ancient Greek military victories are about Sparta and Alexander. Both of them highly democratic. Especially Alexander.
Well, various city-states held greater power at different times and Pericles' Athens definitely became pre-eminent after they stole the Delian League silver hoard. Apparently though, despite the usual tyrany that has checkered all history, they managed to accomplish some other things; that's just what I've heard. Apparently, they made some contributions to mathematics, sculpture, theater, literature, astronomy, engineering, philosophy, history, medicine, science, law, politics... something about being the cradle of western civlization.
Yep, SOME contributions. Like soo many cultures before them and soo many cultures after them. Greeks are nothing special and never have been. And they are far, far away of being the cradle of any civilization.
All of the listed contributions you mentioned were invented/discovered by older, easter cultures, and learned by the Greeks through trading with the older Phoenician culture.
The particularity of the Athenian democracy is it was not a universal suffrage.
No women, no immigrant, no slave vote.
Only people who are owner, priest/scientific and living in the city.
Maybe a start to have truly a functioning democracy...
It will be interesting to see if these Greeks can even locate the battlefield, let alone win the war, as this enemy is far more amorphous than the Italian Army.
Let's see...
Top Shelf will be Makers Mark, Johnny Walker, a good rum, a good vodka,
Middle will be Jim Beam, etc
And at the bottom will be Canadian Club, Stoly, etc.
No beer for obvious reasons.
Water...with ice...is extra.
Will throw in a slice of lime free of charge.
And THAT will be The Cabinet that runs Greece.
I did recommend they nationalise the Banks in another thread.
No different here in the USA for all the down voters.
"Still gotta pay for that."
Once you start taking the Banker Bux its game over...
Suprisingly still no Minister of Nooses and Lamp Posts.
I wonder how many of them are jews...
Marxist gun slingers minus the Minister of Paying Back Debts! Out of the frying pan into the fire!
There's no PRINTER in the cabinet?
Good luck with that
looks like the group from Reservoir Dogs.
was thinking OCEAN'S FOURTEEN - Greek style
off topic but wanted ya'll to know...
http://www.ktvu.com/story/27951007/brazen-gold-robbery-at-wells-fargo-mu...
What a load of fucking asinine comments from a bunch of cynical American fucktard no - nothing losers. You sit at your computer in your pajamas telling us all how great it would be to give the shithead banksters the middle finger, and then you ridicule an entire nation of people for doing just that. Fuck you, and fuck your idiotic opinions of what a Country finally decided to get off its ass and DO for itself!
Not all Americans are against this...only those who are receiving paychecks from the three letter agencies.
Armchair generals are always the best, don't you know... We, as Americans, can't do shit to sort out our country but boy, don't we know how to lecture other people. And you know why ? Because we are so fucking "exceptional" and they are not... Back to the subject now, there is a very simple way of testing these new people and the sincerity of their talk and/or intentions. If they choose to default on their impossible debt, then they are good people. If they don't, well then they're nothing but a different kind of scammers... It's that simple.
Don't kid yourself.
The Greeks cannot give any middle finger because both their hands are either in their pockets or reaching out for MOAR.
They talk about hardship? My parents and grandparents endured hardships that these Souvlakis will never understand. My parents and grandparents rebuilt - from scratch. They buckled down and WORKED their way UP.
Fucking Greeks can only whine and say they've been betrayed.
Well, I got news for them. We have all been betrayed once or more in our lives. It's what you make of it that counts.
They took the money. DONE DEAL. Now they can't pay it back. WHATEVER. Just FUCKING GO ALREADY.
Germany can and will pay it off. AS ALWAYS. Because that's how we roll, that's how we WORK.
I think you're so worked out against them only because you KNOW that, if they decide to default, your Douche Bank will be the first to blow up sky high (as they should)...
If we keep going, it gets worse. Germans have been there before. Stop it now and let the chips fall where they may. Trying to FIGHT THIS will make it worse.
Greece is NOT Stalingrad but the combo default of Italy, Spain and Portugal would be.
Thankfully, the Greeks are not Russian or we would have lost already.
Time to PULL the cord.
Cannot agree with you more. Do it now, or you won't have a country worth saving in 10 years... Same happened to US.
Walkure I salute you when you say Germans work and will pay off the debt. At last, someone who acknowledges Germany's debt to Greece for economic plunder and damage as well as countless atrocities.
"My parents and grandparents endured hardships that these Souvlakis will never understand" Greece suffered the most of any European country in WW2 and the Civil War that followed.
"Germany can and will pay it off. AS ALWAYS"
half of Germany's debt was written off in the london debt accord of 1953
carry on
+ 1000 Crtrvlt
For all those who cynically cast your snide remarks on a Greek victory, you should read some Greek history from WWII and the ensuing Greek Civil War (caused by Britain rearming Nazi collaborators).
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secret
If you understand where this movement came from, then you will realize that it has the potential to shake things up. We who stand against the tyranny of the banker cabal should be cheering and lending our support.
Next in line : Spain, Portugal & Italy! Bon appetite!
Your parents and grandparents out performed a nation of parents and grandparents, now that you got that out there does it seem as asinine as it is?
LOL, let's see these collectivist bureacrats instill a sense of free markets and "doing for yourself" attitude. I'd be a lot more optimistic if they hadn't voted in a radical left party, which pretty much sums up where you're at.
"Country finally decided to get off its ass and DO for itself!"
It looks like they just went with the guy promising them the most free shit.
It seems like this is the only way anyone can get elected.
The problem is of course - where do they get the cash to make good on these promises?
No rep ties in sight here.
I give them 6 months before the SHTF....I think they have money until May...when that runs out...all bets are off..and the game changes
liquidity is leaving the country
they vote and declare one thing, but prepare for the opposite
SURPRISE! /not
Like the man said, "death is preferable".
I hope they have a plan, unless the plan is to caise Europe enough anxiety, pain and chaos that it might in turn change its tune and direction.
Inevitably, the big issue for all nations everywhere is the question of debt.
So dramatic, I'm almost in tears. Greeks invented DRAMA and their nation is living it. The whole thing is one big soap opera.
The only soap opera my friend was the transformation by your nation of innocent Jews and Gypsies into soap at your concentration camp, where you removed their teeth in search of gold, where you experimented on them as if they were rats and when you moved into Greece you shot 20-25 men for every German killed.
If Germans want to be recognized for their industriousness and other abilities they first should try and be recognized for their humanity....or is that too much to ask for?
I wish them well but am not hopeful.
For those who are interested in Syriza and its new strong man in FInance : Yanis Varoufakis.
Please note this guy has been copiously blogging on Naked Capitalism since at least three years.
If you want a deeper insight of his views just go through the archives of Naked Capitalism by clicking on his name as selective choice.
It will make interesting reading I guaranty you.
With regards to Yanis Varoufakis, this link should work (good info, FP):
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Just because he has some good economic theories, doesn't mean he has the funds to run the country.
Why do you think Greeks are taking money out of their banks more and more every day?
How much gold does Greece have?
Remember when the Papandreous ran things?
I think that Americans need to sit back and reflect on how well they were defrauded by Obama given the great promises and undertakings he made pre-election and how utterly disappointed (pissed off) everyone has become.
If this new Greek government can speak the truth and use chaos to defend it, then it might actually have started something.
If Russia and China stand by Greece then this tiny nation will have effectively put Europe under siege.
Why would Russia and China "stand by" Greece? What's in it for them? The Eurozone has 500+ million consumers with a relatively "hard" currency. Once Greece is out and dealing in Drachmas they're pretty much as attractive as Albania.
For one thing, it would make a great bridgehead in Festung EU, for other unhappy countries to join later on. For another, it would destroy the NATO position in the Mediterranean... By the way, Albania would be great too, though less exciting than Greece... Third, remember where the new Russian gas pipeline is about to land ?!
Just a bunch of pipe(line)dreams that's all...
Russia and China are much more interested to further develop and establish ties and relations with Germany.
Besides, if the Greeks thought they would be suffeirng under the German EU debt payments... they haven't taken a loan and tried to default on Russian or Chinese debt.
Go for it.
It is true that China and Russia are much more interested in relations with Germany, but first they have to shake Germany free of its US masters.
Yes but the topic here was Greek relations with Russia and China.
Quite symbolic that Tsirpas first two acts as new PM are to piss in the German cornflakes (commemorating the victims of Nazis) and then going to beg for money from Russia (having the Russian ambassador over for tea and crumpets).
Syriza is failing from day one. Germany is pissed and Russia feels harrassed.
So much for "dignity" and "honor" bullshit.
Pay your debt to Greece for its atrocities in World War II and then you can talk as an equal.
Unless Germany pays its debt to Greece it has no real right to sit at the table of humanity.
You paid it to the Jewish people, so why not to the Greeks?
And if you care, take a look at your own statistics about how rife bribes, corruption and black money are in Germany.
http://www.thelocal.de/20120316/41373
In other words stop your corruption for one year and you have practically paid your debt to Greece.
And the Greeks had their collaborationist gov'ts (Quisling-Vichy by any other name) during WWII, rounded up their tiny Jewish population for the nazis and murdered thousands of other Greeks who were attempting to fight the Nazis.
Sorry, but Merkel has just spat in Putin's borscht. What's worse (for you, guys) is that he's noticed...
Putin has support and influence behind Merkel's back. She is not worth his time. He will outlive her politically and the next German leadership will be friendlier. Putin's allies are operating within Germany
+1. You are starting to make sense.
"I think that Americans need to sit back and reflect on how well they were defrauded by Obama given the great promises and undertakings he made pre-election and how utterly disappointed (pissed off) everyone has become."
With respect, but:
If you leave a steak out to defrost, and your dog eats it, do you blame the dog, or yourself?
If you believe what a professional liar, pol, says, do you blame the liar, or yourself.
CIA-Obama is nothing more than another symptom of the cancer that emanates from the Zionist bankster tumor. The tumor must first be cut out before any healing can begin.
The banksters need to repay us.
I don't know any of those people. I was wondering if anyone else knew. Is he going to do what he said he would, or is he sold out like almost all politicians? Does he work for the Greek people or does he take orders from TPTB? I don't know. His actions, like his choice of cabinet members may tell us something, if I knew any of them.
Parade of typical champagne socialists living the caviar dream on a beer budget (with other people's money)
I don't like socialist policies but these people are absolutely correct in saying two things:
1. EU policies have failed miserably
2. The debt load is impossible to service and repay.
For a truly socialist nation look at the USA where the public servant is way overpaid compared to most other productive Americans and where the free market has not been allowed to assert itself and the rule of law and the constitution have been mangled beyond recognition.
They're stating the obvious but they have no solution. The far right and far left across Europe are all saying the same things and have been saying this for years. More and more voters agree with them because they speak the truth BUT none of them are offering any solutions on how to make it better or how to change it.
You know why? Because changing the status quo is painful and requires lots and lots of hardship from exactly those voters who all dream of a better future.
We can all have ideas and theories but when a nation is so deeply indebted and literally being fed from others intravenously just to survive.. well, there aren't many options.
YOU DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU
The solution begins by dealing with pollution. In other words the DEBT.
But what I can say is that Greece needs to live within her means and her potentialities and if these means eating dry bread and olives then so be it. She can no longer put her hand out for more debt especially when it is just for keeping the cogs and wheels of government turning.
Where and who are "far right" in Europe? Golden Dawn (Greek Party)... while they are blaming Jews for their nation-state failure, their prescription for recovery is fascist-socialist ideas which again is socialism with a dab of nationalism.
So gay-friendly (marriage included), immigrant and asylym seeker friendly, anti-religious, pro-europe government. (Just go check SYRIZA's programme). Just the right government for Zerohedge regulars. (probably anti-gun as well...)
Not for me. Doesn't impress Mr. Putin either, I'm sure.
You wouldn't say so based on comments here...
And the Finance Ministry goes to George Soros.
Varoufakis is front man for G.Soros, best buddy of GAP. (G Papandreou)
Boys and girls the "New" faces are a front for the OLD faces
We will go to extra time, it is the last party before the Greeks collapse or take to Revolution.
30% of the Voters DO NOT TRUST them so hold on tight.
Not to forget, Varoufakis is a long term aide to G-Pap. NWO stuff at it best.
If they aren't guillotining the banksters, then nothing is to change.
The banksters need to repay us.
They'd better have a minister of defense and whoever is having the police and the secret service under their management that is on top of things. Send the top of these institutions either in to early retirement or keep them very close. In any case, keep an eye on them. These people often see themselves as 'defenders of the realm' or 'defenders of the fatherland' and get funny ideas and project that these ideas that are good for the country and what the people want and need.
You can be sure that none of this crew has ever paid their taxes!
Deck chairs on the Titanic. I mean really, what freaking difference does it make?
Those dudes look like they mean business, unlike the clueless, clusterfucks listed below:.....
picture of bush cheney rice
So are all these ministers of Syriza? In any case, of the top eight vote getting parties, not a one of them stand for free enterprise and individual freedoms. They all promote the State. They're either (Mostly) Socialist/Marxist/Communist and/or Fascist/Fascist-lite. The central party plank of Syriza is debt forgiveness, with a demand for interest free/delayed loans and grants from the same EU members that they're likely to stiff. In any case, the Greek body politic is every bit as delusional as is their political leadership. Greece is beyond repair, as is most of the EU. Next step is revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The above is based on researching the list of the top vote getting parties at their respective English version web sights.
Addendum:
26/ 01/ 2015
Official results released by the Interior Ministry (70.45 percent of votes counted):
SYRIZA: 36.03%, 149 seats
New Democracy: 28.15%, 77 seats
Golden Dawn: 6.35%, 17 seats
Potami: 5.95%, 16 seats
KKE: 5.43%, 15 seats
PASOK: 4.75%, 13 seats
ANEL: 4.70%, 13 seats
Kinima: 2.44%, 0 seats
More importantly, look who showed up for dinner ! Hint: 3rd place... And THAT my friend, is the future of Europe !
Socialists or Fascists, what's the diff?
If you mean that their vote share is DOWN from last election... Yeah, right. They are the idiots whom fewer people voted for even after the long period of pain and upheaval (which, you would think, might favour them. Greeks might be lazy but even they are not that stupid.
From the WSJ:
The new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is an economist who describes himself as a “libertarian Marxist.” That's about as oxymoronic as it gets.
While Mr. Varoufakis will hold the title of finance minister, the Greek negotiating also includes several others with antiausterity credentials, including 68-year-old Yannis Dragasakis, a longtime senior member of Greece’s Communist party, who has been appointed as deputy prime minister and is expected to play an overall coordinating role in the new government’s economic policy.
Mr. Dragasakis, who was first elected to parliament in 1989, is the only member of Syriza’s core economic team with some government experience, serving five months as deputy finance minister in an interim government between late 1989 and early 1990.
Georgios Stathakis, a 62-year-old academic, likewise with roots in Greece’s Communist party, was named as head of a newly merged economics superministry. In line with Syriza’s campaign promises to slim down government, the party has merged Greece’s development ministry with three other ministries charged with transport, merchant marine and tourism.
The country’s foreign affairs ministry will be headed by Nikos Kotzias, a 64 year old professor of politics, who was previously a member of Greece’s Communist party and has taught at universities in Germany, Britain and the U.S.
—Nektaria Stamouli contributed to this article.
Dream team! What possibly could go wrong?
For the Greeks just more of the same. Maybe Syriza will run the soup lines better than the last government, but Syriza has taken control with a public under extreme duress.
Here's the link to Syriza's party platform:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?docex=1&url=http://www.solidarity4all.gr/...
DO NOT BE FOOLED by the term COMMUNIST.
Half of them HAVE NOTHING TO DO with what most people imagine
Dragasakis., Stathakis, Varoufakis and some other individuals have nothing to do with the working class and everything to do with the BANKSTERS.
Stathakis was a Bank Union Stewart retired with a handsome package (600.000.00 euros, invested in Black Rock) who invests in that fucking thing if he hasn't got more?
Dragasakis has enough properties , to not want to wreck his wealth.
Varoufakis son (almost) of Soros.
So the verdict is. If George Soros is a communist, so are that lot.
I rest my case
Point taken, and many of the Bolsheviks during the revolution, and certainly the top Bolsheviks afterwards had little if any connection to the poverty stricken population, and even if they did, it wasn't long before their personal economic station was enriched and the serfs forgotten.
Won't be long before Greece gets paved over & becomes a huge naval base for the U.S.A.!
USA, USA, USA
You forgot to add minister of puppetry Vlad Putin.