Prime Minister of Greece may be the worst job in Europe, but Lucas Papademos took it anyway. The bespectacled economist who was sworn in on Friday, alongside a new Cabinet tasked with implementing a landmark bailout deal that everyone hopes will save the country — not to mention the entire euro zone.
The new unity government includes ministers from the cabinet of the center-left PASOK party, namely Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos. The main opposition conservatives, New Democracy, are also represented as is a smaller right-wing party called LAOS, or the Popular Orthodox Rally. Left-wing parties refused to join coalition talks or join the cabinet.