Lagarde downplays odds of early exit
ECB president uses interviews to say she is on a ‘mission’ with a ‘baseline’ of serving out her term
Christine Lagarde has said she would like her legacy at the European Central Bank to be about vanquishing inflation and starting work on the digital euro.
In two interviews – with the Wall Street Journal on February 21 and with CBS News on February 22 – the ECB president sought to dispel reports that she would be leaving her position early.
On whether she would take up Klaus Schwab’s former position as chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF), she said she had recently been asked whether her next
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