The Dutch government wants to impose the former Minister of Finance and head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the new head of the IMF. The chances are that the 53-Year-old Christine Lagarde inherited, are not bad.
As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ) reported, tried in The Hague to organize a majority of European countries for the Dutchman Dijsselbloem as the successor to the French woman Lagarde, the on 1. November at the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) to back.
Allegedly covering from Paris and Berlin back
According to the SZ Dijsselbloem is now regarded as a promising candidate for the Topjob. Den Haag have led in the past few days, numerous phone calls to the personnel with politicians and Central bankers across Europe. I understand that the governments, in Berlin and Paris open to the idea of an official statement there is, however, more reported the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. Without the consent of these two key EU member States, a candidate would probably have little chance of success.
This time, Trump is on Europe’s side
For years, the economically significant of the push emerging countries to occupy the top post of the International monetary Fund, on the traditionally, the Europeans have access. However, the European States reject this demand of the emerging countries.
“It is a European claim to appoint the President of the IMF,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel a few days ago in Berlin. The Europeans are likely to prevail this time, especially since you can build with this theme, apparently, to the support of U.S. President Donald Trump. With the help of Trumps will probably be more for his own goals. The US President, it is not a matter to strengthen the Europeans, but rather to limit the influence of the emerging countries, especially China, in the organization, with 189 countries. The post Dijsselbloem is to be matched to the SZ-according to a report on the Meeting of the G7 this week in Paris.
The former Dutch Finance Minister, had headed from January 2013 until the beginning of 2018, the Meeting of the Euro-States and, thus, through several years of financial and debt crisis. In addition to Dijsselbloem currently, a total of five other candidates to be named, the chances are, however, considered low.
qu/cgn (afp, Süddeutsche Zeitung)