In a press release dated Thursday 15 February, Roberto Gualtieri, the chair of the economic and monetary affairs (ECON) committee of the European Parliament, said that the “majority of the political groups” were more convinced by Philip Lane, governor of the Irish Central Bank, than by Luis de Guindos, the Spanish Finance Minister, following a hearing on their candidacies for the vice-presidency of the European Central Bank (ECB).
The two men had been invited to present their programmes...