Europe Should Not Control the IMF

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French erstwhile managing director of the International Monetary Fund, had not even resigned before Europeans started to coalesce around Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, as his successor.* Gone are past promises of an open selection. The Europeans insist on the principle that what we have we hold. The ancien régime survives.

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