Threat to Trichet’s hopes to lead ECB

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Series Details 17.7.02, p1
Publication Date 17/07/2002
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The Governor of the Bank of France, Jean-Claude Trichet, has aspirations to the post of President of the European Central Bank. However, these hopes were under threat on 16 July 2002 when a French magistrate ordered that Mr Trichet be tried for his role in a ten year-old banking scandal.

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