Netherlands Set to Appoint First Female Finance Minister

(Bloomberg) -- The Netherlands is set to appoint its first female finance minister, with local media reporting that Sigrid Kaag, head of pro-European D66 party, will take the post in the euro area’s fifth biggest economy. Only four of her European Union counterparts are women -- all of them also euro members. The new Dutch cabinet is expected to be announced in January.

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