On Monday 19 January, the twenty-one finance ministers of the euro area countries will attempt to reach an agreement on who will replace the ECB vice-president, Spain’s Luis de Guindos, whose term of office expires at the end of May.
Several factors could complicate the choice to be made: six prominent individuals have submitted their candidacy: the Portuguese Mário Centeno, the Latvian Mārtiņš Kazāks, the Estonian Madis Müller, the Finn Olli Rehn, the Lithuanian Rimantas Šadžius...