ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) ecb

Ombudsman sees no problem with being head of ECB and member of G30

Brusseks, 04/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 4 February 2013, European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros rejected a complaint by Corporate Europe Observatory that the independence, reputation and integrity of the European Central Bank has been damaged by the fact that its president, Mario Draghi, is a member of the Group of Thirty (see EUROPE 10683).

Diamandouros says that G30 members, the group's finance and objectives are too diverse for it to be seen as a lobby group. Fewer than a...