ECB Watch: Changing faces, changing places

With Mario Draghi taking up a position on the European Central Bank’s governing council, and Jürgen Stark set to be the next new member, the inner sanctum is likely to become more pragmatic than doctrinaire.

By John Arrowsmith

The European Central Bank is not the immutable autocratic monolith it’s sometimes represented as. It has an executive board of six full-time members serving eight-year non-renewable terms who, together with the governors of the 12 national central banks of the euro area, constitute the policy-making governing council, each of whose members has an equal voice. The ECB’s deliberations thus reflect a wide variety of personalities and perspectives. And personalities come and go.

Only last month, a new face appeared on the governing council.

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