European Parliament president Martin Schulz, who has expressed himself in favour of Greece's stay in the eurozone, is visiting the nation's capital on 18 May.
The fulfilled promise of Hollande for a gender-balanced cabinet with 17 women out of 34 ministers inspired AFP to analyse the ratio between men and women also in the governments of other European states.
The third and the last exploratory mandate to form a government was handed on 10 May from Greek President Karolos Papoulias, to the leader of the party that came third in the elections of 6 May, namely Evagelos Venizelos president of PASOK.