Euro-area finance ministers narrowed the field for the ECB vice presidency to four candidates as two Baltic nations withdrew from the race, according to Bloomberg citing sources.
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- After a first round of votes in the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday, Estonia’s Madis Muller and Lithuania’s Rimantas Sadzius exited.
- That leaves Portugal’s Mario Centeno, Latvia’s Martins Kazaks, Finland’s Olli Rehn, and Croatia’s Boris Vujcic in the running to succeed Luis de Guindos, whose term concludes at the end of May.
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