When christine lagarde Was asked last year whether she was interested in a job in Europe, the head of the imf made an emphatic denial. "No, no, no, no, no, no," she told the Financial Times. "I have a very important job here that I want to do and I'm not going to leave that beautiful vessel when there might be rough waters out there." But the vagaries of European politicking are such that on July 2nd she was anointed successor to Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank (ecb), as part of the package for top eu jobs.
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