Journalist Pantelis Kapsis, former director of TA NEA and TO VIMA newspapers and managing director of the Lambrakis Publishing Group (DOL), has been named by transitional prime minister Lucas Papademos as the new minister of state and government spokesman.

Papademos also appointed Gikas Hardouvelis, Professor in the Department of Banking and Financial Management at the University of Piraeus and former Eurobank Group chief economist, as the director of his economic office, and George Pagoulatos, Professor of European Politics and Economy in the Department of International and European Economic Studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business, as the director of his strategic planning office.