The European Union is about to get another female leader — this time in Finland
after the Center Party, one member of the ruling five-party coalition, said it had lost trust in him over his handling of a labor dispute at the state-owned postal service Posti.
Finland's six-month stint as president of the Council of the EU ends on December 31, so Marin's impact on that role will be limited. However, she will be quickly thrust into the European arena, when she attends her first European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday.the Multiannual Financial Framework, according to a spokesperson for the country's diplomatic mission to the EU.
Marin's appointment means that the leaders of all the parties in the center-left government are women, four of them under 35. Katri Kulmuni, 32, leads the Center Party; Maria Ohisalo, 34, leads the Green League; Li Anderson, 32, leads the Left Alliance and Anna-Maja Henriksson, 55, leads the Swedish People’s Party.
Marin is unlikely to pursue radically new policies, as the coalition's government program will stay untouched. Marin is known as a tough no-nonsense leader, who rose to fame at age 27 when she became the chair of the Tampere city council. She has been vocal about environmental issues, and leans politically toward her party's left-green wing.
”I come from a poor family and I would not have the means to succeed and get ahead in life without the welfare state and the Finnish education system. I come from a rainbow family, and this means that equality and human rights are important to me," Marin told
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