BRUSSELS (MNI) – The European Parliament will hold a hearing with
European Central Bank Executive Board nominee Yves Mersch on October 22,
a spokesman for the Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
confirmed.
The committee, which had until now been blocking formal approval of
the governor of the central bank of Luxembourg by stalling his hearing,
agreed to set the date after the President of the European Council,
Herman Van Rompuy, agreed to speak out against the lack of women in
senior positions at the ECB.
EU lawmakers currently pushing to legislate quotas for women on
company boards jumped on the heavily contested ECB executive board
appointment, for which no women had been considered, to spotlight the
issue of gender balance.
There has been a vacant seat at the ECB’s six member board since
Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo stepped down at the end of May this year.
–Brussels Newsroom, +324-952-28374; pkoh@mni-news.com
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