Prime Minister George Papandreou reshuffled his government Tuesday to speed up the economic revival of recession-mired Greece, which had been on the brink of bankruptcy, the government spokesman said.

The expanded government, announced nearly a year after Papandreou’s Pasok socialist party came to power, however retains Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou in the key post, Georges Petalotis said.

The new government has 48 members against 36 previously. Seventeen of them are ministers.