EU Power Struggle Haunts Mersch as ECB Women Row Looms

European Parliament lawmakers will today decide whether to escalate a gender row with governments as they ponder if Yves Mersch’s appointment to the European Central Bank Executive Board would make him one man too many.

Mersch, 63, will testify to the European Union assembly’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee before it then votes on his candidacy for the ECB post in a session starting about 7 p.m. in Strasbourg, France. The Luxembourg central bank governor’s career move has been held up by the panel’s objection to the total lack of female policy makers at the ECB.