The surprise choice of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen to\nreplace Jean-Claude Juncker came after the main front-runners were rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been nominated as the first woman to head\nthe European Central Bank (ECB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The announcement follows days of difficult negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In all, EU leaders were tasked with nominating five people for the top jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Belgian liberal Prime Minister Charles Michel is nominated to replace\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk while Spain’s Josep Borrell is proposed\nas foreign policy chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fifth key role – president of the European Parliament – is to be chosen\non Wednesday. Possible candidates include German centre-right MEP Manfred Weber\nand Bulgarian socialist Sergei Stanishev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the roles must be ratified by the European Parliament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms.Ursula:<\/strong> The surprise choice of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen to replace Jean-Claude Juncker came after the main front-runners were rejected. IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been nominated as the first woman to head the European Central Bank (ECB). The announcement follows days of difficult negotiations. In all, EU leaders were tasked with nominating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ms.Ursula, the 60-year-old gynecologist, started her political career in her early age of 40. In 1990 she joined Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) <\/strong>and worked for 14 years.
In 2009 Van der Leyen moved to the Labor Ministry, before becoming the first female defense minister in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"