'I don't feel like a role model' - Finland's new 34-year-old leader


  • World
  • Saturday, 14 Dec 2019

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin during an interview with Reuters after a European leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS/HELSINKI (Reuters) - She may be the world's youngest-serving head of government, but Finland's newly appointed prime minister does not feel like a role model, 34-year-old Sanna Marin told Reuters on Friday.

Marin became the Nordic country's prime minister on Tuesday, and two days later found herself rubbing shoulders at a European Union summit with leaders of 27 countries, including the powerful figures of Emmanuel Macron of France and Angela Merkel of Germany.

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