BRUSSELS - For the first time, European Union leaders nominated women for half of the top positions they filled Tuesday to lead the world’s biggest trade bloc. A perfect gender balance,” EU Council President Donald Tusk said after the EU summit he organized. After long paying lip service to a better gender balance in the bloc’s leadership, EU national leaders came through Tuesday. If the European Parliament confirms von der Leyen, she will be hobnobbing with the likes of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Lagarde already proved her financial mettle time and again as head of the International Monetary Fund and as French finance minister.

Source: thestar July 02, 2019 22:07 UTC