ECB reveals executive board salaries

In keeping with their inflation-fighting mandate, senior staff at the ECB gave themselves a 2% pay rise last year.

The basic salary of Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the central bank, rose by 2% to €345,252 ($530,752). The salary of Lucas Papademos, the vice president, went up by the same proportion to €295,920.

The six members of the central bank's executive board, which includes Trichet and Papademos, were paid a total of €1,627,524 last year with the other four board members receiving

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