The former head of the European Central Bank (ECB) has joined a chorus of European finance chiefs in praising Christine Lagarde's candidacy for the ECB's top job.
Jean-Claude Trichet, a French economist who presided over the Frankfurt-based central bank from 2003 to 2011, has said that Lagarde's experience as finance minister in France, coupled with her eight years as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, constituted "very, very good training."
His fulsome endorsement was echoed by many of the European finance and economy chiefs who had met in Brussels Tuesday and waved through her nomination for later approval by national leaders, in consultation with the ECB's governing council and the newly elected European parliament.
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