Economics
Tussle for ECB’s Last Big Job for Years Becomes Two-Man Race
- Dutchman Elderson, Slovenia’s Jazbec emerge as only contenders
- Euro-area finance ministers will make selection between them
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The race to clinch the European Central Bank’s final vacancy on its Executive Board for half a decade has just two contenders, both of them male.
Both candidates -- Dutch central bank official Frank Elderson and former Slovenian Governor Bostjan Jazbec -- have expertise in financial supervision, befitting the likelihood that the position will bring with it the role of second-in-command at the euro zone’s watchdog for lenders.