European leaders have broken the deadlock and selected their top leaders, nominating Germany's defense chief as the new head of the European Commission.<br />For more on this and other news around the world, let's turn to our Hong Yoo.<br />So Yoo, tell us more about these candidates nominated for the most powerful positions in Europe.<br /><br />Well Connyoung, nominating German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission chief was a choice no one was quite expecting because she was not one of the main front-runners.<br />The nomination came after three days of negotiations, one of the longest in recent years.<br />If von der Leyen wins the support of a majority of members in the European Parliament, she will become the first woman to head up the commission.<br />Von der Leyen has been a member of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats since 2005.<br />But she's not the only women named to a top EU posts for the first time as the French director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, has been tapped as president of the European Central Bank.<br />Lagarde was also the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund.<br />There are two other nominations for different senior posts and they are: Belgium's liberal Prime Minister Charles Michael nominated as the European Council President and Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell as the EU foreign policy chief.<br />European Council President Donald Tusk praised the final outcome.<br /><br />"First and foremost we have chosen two women and two men for the four key positions: a perfect gender balance. I am really happy about it. After all, Europe is a woman. I think it was worth waiting for such an outcome."<br /><br />The struggle to reach an agreement on these nominations reflected the bloc's lack of unity due to political fragmentation on pressing crises like Brexit and mass migration.<br />
