Brussels, 10/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - The former French finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is the European Union candidate for General Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Flying in the face of expectations, the ECOFIN Council agreed, on Tuesday, on the candidate to replace Rodrigo Rato in October (who has resigned). Put forward by Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who failed to win the French Socialist Party's backing to stand in the French presidential elections in May 2007...