缘何德国总理默克尔希望IMF拉加德出任欧盟主席

2014-07-08 16:31:05来源：财富中文网

　　The path to the position is hardly straightforward. Merkel raised the matter with French President Francois Hollande, who generally speaking would be the one to put Lagarde forward as a candidate—something Hollande, who is loathe to lose a compatriot at the powerful IMF, is unlikely to do. So, technically, for Lagarde to be considered, she would likely have to be nominated by one or another pan-European political parties.

　　通往这个职位的道路并非没有曲折。默克尔与法国总统弗朗索瓦o奥朗德提起过这事，一般而言，应该由法国总统提名拉加德为候选人。但奥朗德可能不会这么做，他绝不想在有实权的IMF中失去一位亲法者。因此，从技术层面，如果拉加德要加入候选人行列，她可能必须获得一个泛欧政党的提名。

　　Later this month, European leaders will choose from such candidates. As per the EU’s purportedly more democratic rules, they must factor into their decisions the results of May’s parliamentary election. The emergent nominee must then win majority approval of the European parliament.

　　本月晚些时候，欧洲领导人们将从这些候选人中做出选择。按欧盟据称更为民主的条例，他们的最终决定必须考虑5月份的欧洲议会选举结果。获得提名的人选必须获得欧洲议会多数通过。

　　May’s election results suggest that the favorite may well be Jean-Claude Juncker, a former prime minister of Luxembourg and an old-school European federalist, who Merkel initially backed. The United Kingdom’s David Cameron, however, has been openly opposed to Juncker. Hence, the backroom negotiations that led to the conversation between Merkel and Hollande, according to reports.

　　5月份的选举结果显示，最受欢迎的很可能是前卢森堡总理让-克洛德o容克，也是默克尔起初支持的一位老派欧洲联邦主义者。但英国的戴维o卡梅伦已经公开表示反对容克。因此，报道称，种种幕后角力导致了默克尔与奥朗德之间的对话。

　　Getting involved in all that politicking merely to join ranks with a mélange of underweight Eurocrats, may sound like a step back for Lagarde, whose star has been rising on the international stage ever since she replaced the disgraced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the “World’s Banker” in 2011. And, well, it probably is.

　　参与这些政治斗争，泯然于一群无足轻重的欧洲官员之列，对于拉加德而言可能是一种倒退。自从2011年她取代斯文扫地的多米尼克o斯特劳斯o卡恩成为“世界的银行家”后，她就已经成了国际舞台上冉冉升起的明星。嗯，可能就是这样。

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