胡安·巴勃罗·瓦莱罗、马克·施罗尔斯和雅娜·兰德报道欧洲中央银行要求该地区领导人开始为伊莎贝尔·施纳贝尔挑选继任者，此举可能引发一项涵盖克里斯蒂娜·拉加德等职位的打包交易。
By Jorge Valero, Mark Schroers and Jana Randow The European Central Bank asked the region’s leaders to start choosing a successor to Isabel Schnabel, initiating a likely package deal over jobs including that of Christine Lagarde.
“我可以证实，安托尼奥·科斯塔主席已收到拉加德主席的来信，请求启动任命欧洲央行执行委员会新成员的正式程序，”欧洲理事会主席的发言人表示。欧洲理事会主席主持欧盟政府首脑峰会。一名欧盟官员证实，该请求是要求立即启动这一程序。
“I can confirm that President Antonio Costa has received the letter from President Lagarde requesting to launch the formal procedure for appointing a new member of the ECB Executive Board,” said a spokesman for the chief of the European Council, who chairs summits of European Union heads of government. An EU official confirmed that the request was to launch the process without delay.
此举将压力转移至欧元集团，该集团由欧元区财政部长组成，由希腊的基里亚科斯·皮拉卡基斯领导，需在其10月8日于卢森堡举行的会议上尽快讨论此问题。此类讨论的结果可能是呼吁候选人填补该职位。
The move puts the onus on the Eurogroup, which comprises euro-area finance ministers and is led by Greece’s Kyriakos Pierrakakis, to discuss the issue as soon as its Oct. 8 meeting in Luxembourg. The result of such discussions could be a call for candidates to fill the role.
施纳贝尔上周表示，她将在任期结束前近一年离开欧洲央行，前往国际货币基金组织担任高级职务。这增加了法兰克福欧洲央行即将进行的领导层改组的紧迫性，因为拉加德和首席经济学家菲利普·莱恩也将离任。
Schnabel said last week that she’ll leave the ECB almost one year before the end of her term to take a senior job at the International Monetary Fund. That adds urgency to the impending leadership overhaul at the Frankfurt-based ECB, with Lagarde and Chief Economist Philip Lane also set to go.
欧盟领导人对任何任命拥有最终决定权，并可能试图一次性就这三个职位达成一致，希腊总理将其称为“一揽子大交易”。鉴于施纳贝尔的职位将于1月初空缺，12月年度最后一次峰会作出决定是有可能的。
European Union leaders have the last word on any appointment and may try to agree on all three jobs at once, in what Greece’s premier calls “a grand bargain.”Given Schnabel’s position will be vacant as of early January, a decision by the final summit of the year in December is plausible.
由于施纳贝尔是德国人，最直接的压力 arguably 现在转向柏林，尽管该国在三次州选举失利后正陷入政府动荡的困扰，柏林仍需采取行动。
Since Schnabel is German, the most immediate pressure arguably now shifts to Berlin to make a move despite the ongoing distraction of government turmoil there after three state election setbacks.
法国和德国都决心在欧洲央行执行委员会中保持席位，而西班牙——在今年早些时候副行长路易斯·德金多斯退休后正争取一个席位——正提名国际清算银行行长巴勃罗·埃尔南德斯·德科斯角逐最高职位。
Both France and Germany are determined to maintain a presence on the Executive Board, and Spain — which is pushing for a seat after Vice President Luis de Guindos retired earlier this year — is fielding Bank for International Settlements chief Pablo Hernandez de Cos for the top job.
德科斯竞逐欧洲央行职位的主要对手是荷兰前央行行长克诺特，不过目前断言谁占优势还为时过早。两国总理上周利用在纽约举行的联合国大会间隙为各自的候选人背书。
De Cos’s main competitor for the ECB role is former Dutch central bank chief Klaas Knot, though it’s too early to say who has the advantage. The prime ministers of both countries last week used the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to endorse their candidates.
拉加德周三释放出迄今最明确的信号，表明她可能提前辞职，而非坚持到2027年10月任期结束。她对《十字架报》表示：“我不排除在任期结束前几个月离职的可能性。”欧洲央行发言人拒绝置评。
Lagarde on Wednesday gave the clearest indication yet that she might resign early instead of lasting until October 2027, telling La Croix newspaper that “I don’t rule out the possibility of leaving a few months before the end of my term.”A spokesperson for the ECB declined to comment.