Europe's IMF domination to end with Strauss-Kahn?

Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg, has said that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the EU's nominee to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be the last managing director to come from the EU for the "foreseeable future".

In an interview with FT Deutschland, a newspaper, Juncker said: "The next director will certainly not be a European."

All of the IMF's nine managing directors have been European. The nomination of Strauss-Kahn has dismayed developing countries, which have

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