Volgens de Financial Times maakt de Finse centrale bank gouverneur Erkki Liikanen kans om Mario Draghi op te volgen als voorzitter van de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB). Hij positioneert zich in het centrum tussen de Duitse en Nederlandse havikken en de Zuid-Europese duiven, waardoor hij als een ideale compromiskandidaat gezien wordt.
During his 14 years on the bank’s governing council, Mr Liikanen has moved away from a hawkish stance and repositioned himself in the centre ground, embracing the exceptionally loose measures policymakers have rolled out to fight the worst crash since the 1920s. That shift should aid him in the contest to replace Mario Draghi, the ECB president, whose mandate ends in November 2019.
Germany’s Jens Weidmann is the favourite for the post. But insiders now consider that Mr Liikanen has placed himself in a better position than the plain-spoken Bundesbank president to prevail in the culture wars between the council’s hawkish northern and dovish southern European contingents.