Mário Centeno wins Eurogroup presidency for Portugal

Mário Centeno, is to become the next president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, taking over the job from Jeroen Dijsselbloem in January, 2018.

The election of Portugal’s current finance minister is prestigous and will delight Portugal’s socialist administration while improving the country’s international standing after António Guterres was elected as the Secretary-General of the United Nations in October 2016.

Centeno, born on December 9th 1966, in Olhão and who spend much of his childhood in