ECB watch: Who’s up next for the Golden Pagoda?

A column from the trenches of the civil service

The jungle drums are beginning to beat again. The informal network is increasing the rhythm and the crescendo. Rumours are afoot that change might be on the way at the Central Bank . . . again.

Vítor Constâncio, the vice-president of the European Central Bank, will see his term expire on May 31, 2018. Ireland has never had a member on the executive board of the ECB. Our man, Philip Lane, is well ...