Brussels, 23/08/2007 (Agence Europe) - In its presentation of its own candidate, Josef Tosovsky, formerly of the Central Czech Bank, to head the International Monetary Fund, Russia has defied the EU by transgressing the tacit rule of this post normally going to the European Union's choice of candidate. The former French minister of finance, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the EU's candidate, is therefore not the only one in the running.
Moscow justified its approach by referring to the need to get...