The Board of Governors of the European Central Bank (ECB) raised no objection to the appointment of Christine Lagarde, the current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as President of the ECB, in an opinion published on Thursday 25 July.
This opinion follows the appointment of Ms Lagarde as a candidate proposed by European leaders to succeed Mario Draghi on last 2 July, in the context of the delicate negotiations on the European Union's high functions (see EUROPE...