With the official Belgian nomination of Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib on Monday, just eight women were put forward by EU countries to serve as Commissioners in the European Commission. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is now likely to lead a male-dominated commission after all 25 nominatations were submitted. After her reelection in July, von der Leyen asked EU countries to nominate both a man and a woman in order to achieve a gender balance in the commission. The only exception granted to this request was for governments that re-nominated a sitting commissioner like France, …