Female Leaders Who Hold Powerful Positions In European Countries

Mette Frederiksen, the Social Democrats' leader since June 2015 and the prime minister of Denmark

In January 2021, Kaja Kallas was appointed as Estonia's first female prime minister

At the age of 34, Sanna Marin, a Social Democrat from Finland, became the youngest prime minister in history in December 2019

 Katalin Novak is the President of Hungary and the first woman to assume the primarily ceremonial position

The current prime minister of Lithuania is the economist and politician Ingrida Šimonytė

Being elected at the age of 45, Zuzana aputová is both Slovakia's first female president and is the country's youngest leader ever

Since May 2022, Elisabeth Borne, the French prime minister, is the sole woman to have held the role

Magdalena Andersson, a Social Democrat who was elected prime minister of Sweden in November 2021, is the post's first holder

Politician Ana Brnabi has been Serbia's prime minister since 2017

Salome Zourabichvili was elected as Georgia's first female president on December 16, 2018

The second woman to lead Iceland's government, Katrin Jakobsdóttir is the country's current prime minister

The fifth and current president of Kosovo is the Kosovar Albanian jurist and politician Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu

Republic of Moldova has a female Prime Minister, Natalia Gavrilița

Maia Sandu is the President of Republic of Moldova. She formerly held the position of prime minister and is now her country's first female president.

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon has been the Scottish National Party's leader since 2014 and is the country's first minister. Both of these positions have never been held by a woman before.

Current UK Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Liz Truss