A new, smaller Greek Cabinet will be sworn in today, giving conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis a streamlined governing team for his party’s second term.

Fresh off its re-election in the smouldering aftermath of deadly forest fires, Greece’s conservative prime minister Costas Karamanlis unveiled a streamlined cabinet peppered with a few new faces.

Greece’s conservative prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, was today expected to announce the names of the Cabinet ministers who will constitute his incoming government, two days after his re-election.