Greek PM reshuffles cabinet after worse than expected EU vote result

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday to boost the government's battle with a cost-of-living crisis, but kept his foreign and finance ministers in place to show policy continuity.

The changes were announced after Mitsotakis' centre-right party performed worse than expected in Sunday's election to the European Parliament.

Although he kept Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Foreign Affairs Minister George Gerapetritis, Mitsotakis named Takis Theodorikakos as development minister and moved Niki Kerameus from the interior ministry to the labor ministry. Former defenσe minister Nikos Papanagiotopoulos was appointed migration minister.

Mitsotakis' New Democracy party, which has led Greece since 2019, came first in Sunday's election with 28.3% of the vote. But it missed a 33% target set by Mitsotakis and was below the 40% the...