ECB prepares for change as Trichet finale nears

Sweeping change at the top of the European Central Bank moveed a step closer in the first week of October 2011 week when Jean-Claude Trichet, President, chaired his last interest-rate setting meeting on the 6 October 2011.

Italy’s Mario Draghi, was due to take over as ECB President on 1 November 2011.

El País, 6.10.11: What it would have cost without Trichet (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu//en/content/article/1029351-what-it-would-have-cost-without-trichet

ESO: Background information: ECB offers new loans to banks in 'worst crisis since WWI' http://www.europeansources.info/record/ecb-offers-new-loans-to-banks-in-worst-crisis-since-wwi/

ESO: Background information: Power shifts mark Draghi's ECB accession http://www.europeansources.info/record/power-shifts-mark-draghis-ecb-accession/

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