On Monday 4 December, the Portuguese Finance Minister, Mário Centeno, was elected by his peers to the head of the Eurogroup for two and a half years, beating the three other candidates in contention, Dana Reizniece-Ozola (Latvia), Peter Kažimír (Slovakia) and Pierre Gramegna (Luxembourg), following two rounds of voting.
Centeno's election comes as no surprise, as the quest for a subtle balance in the distribution of key European positions between the main pro-European political families...