Euro Area Starts Jockeying Over Next ECB Leadership Era
Finance ministers meeting today are expected to start talks on the sidelines for the central bank’s top jobs.
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One by one, the dominoes will start to fall at the European Central Bank, as the institution prepares to turn the page on the Christine Lagarde era.
A tenure marked by strategic adaptation amid overlapping global crises – from the pandemic to war-driven inflation – Lagarde’s shepherding of euro-area monetary policy has taken on a political hue, and a green one.