Greek PM appoints reformist as finance minister, ex-aide as foreign minister

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed his party's vice president Kostis Hatzidakis as finance minister on Monday, after winning an election that gave him a second term at the helm of the country.

Mitsotakis also handed the portfolio of the defense ministry to his former foreign minister Nikos Dendias, a government spokesman said, adding that George Gerapetritis would be the country's foreign minister.