据知情人士称，欧洲中央银行官员伊莎贝尔·施纳贝尔的继任者提名须在本月底前提交。
Nominations to succeed European Central Bank official Isabel Schnabel must be submitted by the end of the month, people familiar with the matter said.
这些人士称，欧元区财政部长们已就填补这位德国官员空缺的日程达成一致：申请截止日期为10月28日，最早可能于11月9日确定候选人。他们因相关讨论属于机密而未透露姓名。
Euro-zone finance ministers agreed on a timetable to fill the German’s vacancy that envisages a deadline for applications on Oct. 28 and an agreement on a candidate possible as soon as Nov. 9, the people said, declining to be identified because discussions on the matter are confidential.
周四在卢森堡拟定的这一时间表并未提及是否也会同时确定欧洲央行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德的继任者。
That schedule sketched out in Luxembourg on Thursday doesn’t touch on the possibility of a successor to ECB President Christine Lagarde also being agreed upon.
希腊总理近期预测，该职位以及另外两个即将空缺的欧洲央行职位可能会达成一项“大交易”。施纳贝尔今年1月离任，与外界猜测的拉加德提前离职以及首席经济学家菲利普·莱恩任期于5月结束的时间相吻合。欧元集团财政部长发言人尚未立即回应置评请求。
The Greek premier recently predicted a prospective “grand bargain” on that job along with two other impending ECB positions. Schnabel’s exit in January coincides with the speculated early departure of Lagarde and the end of Chief Economist Philip Lane’s term in May. A spokesperson for the Eurogroup of finance ministers didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
欧洲央行行长此前多次暗示可能提前离任。最近一次是在上周接受一家法国报纸采访时，她提到可能会在明年10月任期结束前“几个月”辞职。
The ECB president has given numerous hints about leaving prematurely, most recently in an interview with a French newspaper last week where she aired the possibility of quitting “a few months” before her stint concludes next October.
施纳贝尔转任国际货币基金组织职务，推动了各国政府加快决策进程。尽管意大利财政部长詹卡洛·焦尔杰蒂上周五呼吁拉加德澄清其计划，但这位央行行长并未进一步透露她打算留任多久。
Schnabel’s shift to the International Monetary Fund has created an impetus for decision-making among governments. While Italian Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti last Friday called on Lagarde to clarify her plans, the central banker has offered no further clues on how long she intends to stay on.
由于施纳贝尔来自欧洲最大的经济体，她的离任实际上将决定权交给了柏林：由德国提出继任者人选，以保留该国在欧洲央行六名执行董事会成员中的席位。
Since Schnabel is from Europe’s biggest economy, her exit essentially puts the ball in Berlin’s court to propose a successor and keep that country’s seat on the ECB’s six-member Executive Board.
“很明显，德国将在中央银行中继续发挥重要且具影响力的作用——我也会向我的欧洲同事们明确这一点，”德国财政部长拉斯·克林格拜尔对记者表示。“随后，我们将在联邦政府内部做出人事决定和提案，并共同提出建议。”潜在的德国候选人包括普林斯顿大学的马库斯·布鲁纳迈耶教授、伯克利的乌尔丽克·马尔门迪尔教授，以及刚刚离开国际货币基金组织（IMF）斯纳贝尔即将接任职位的托比亚斯·阿德里安。前财政部长约尔格·库基斯也可能成为潜在提名人选。
“It is clear that Germany will continue to play an important and influential role within the central bank — I will also make that clear to my European colleagues,” German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil told reporters. “We will then make the personnel decision, and the proposals, within the federal government and will jointly put forward a proposal.”Potential German candidates include professors Markus Brunnermeier of Princeton University, Ulrike Malmendier of Berkeley University, and Tobias Adrian, who just exited the job Schnabel will take at the IMF. Former Finance Minister Joerg Kukies could also be a potential nominee.
任何任命最终都由欧盟领导人决定。鉴于斯纳贝尔的职位将在1月初空缺，因此在今年12月举行的年度最后一次峰会上做出决定是有可能的。
European Union leaders have the last word on any appointment. Given Schnabel’s position will be vacant as of early January, a decision by the final summit of the year in December is plausible.