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Brussels \u2013 The leadership of the European Central Bank under Christine Lagarde, the Customs Authority, with Lille chosen as the headquarters for the new agency, and now the leadership of the European Banking Authority (EBA): France is “securing” a key aspect of the European Union\u2019s functioning: control over money. The EU Council has appointed <\/strong>Fran\u00e7ois-Louis Michaud as Chair of the EBA for a five-year term starting on 16 April,<\/strong> with the possibility of renewal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Michaud\u2019s appointment as head of the EBA had already been decided in January, when the Council had to choose between the French candidate and the Cypriot contender Constantinos Herodotou, the current governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus. On 26 February, the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Economic Affairs confirmed the selection, and today’s (30 March) approval is therefore a necessary and anticipated formality. However, the vote, especially in light of France already holding the presidency of the ECB and the recent award of the new Customs Authority, takes on an entirely new meaning and highlights France\u2019s weight in the EU\u2019s political\u2011institutional architecture.<\/p>\n

Of course, the French candidate was high-profile<\/a>, having already served as a former executive director of the same banking authority. As an expert in the field with a track record within the institution, the Council\u2019s choice certainly represents continuity, but it also strengthens France\u2019s influence in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Council has formalized a nomination that had effectively already taken place, at a time when Paris is emerging as a key player in Europe: Michaud joins Lagarde at the helm of the ECB, along with the new Customs Authority in Lille<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":448977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26261,33586,25826,32791,33587,33394],"class_list":["post-448997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-autorita-bancaria-europea","tag-banche-en","tag-eba","tag-francois-louis-michaud","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448998,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448997\/revisions\/448998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}