07/02/2020 (Agence Europe) – Polish Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński and former Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan joined French Treasury Director Odile Renaud-Basso in the race for the presidency of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (see EUROPE B12410A25). European finance ministers have already discussed the possibility of a single candidacy to install a European Union personality to succeed the British Suma Chakrabarti in the spring. (MB)