欧洲央行要求该地区领导人开始遴选首席经济学家菲利普·莱恩的继任者，由此开启其执行委员会又一空缺职位的竞逐。
The European Central Bank asked the region’s leaders to start choosing a successor to Chief Economist Philip Lane, opening the race for yet another vacancy on its Executive Board.
欧洲理事会主席的发言人表示：“我可以确认，主席安东尼奥·科斯塔已收到拉加德主席的信函，请求启动任命菲利普·莱恩继任者为欧洲央行执行委员会新成员的正式程序。”欧洲理事会主席主持欧盟成员国政府首脑峰会。
“I can confirm that President Antonio Costa has received the letter from President Lagarde requesting to launch the formal procedure for appointing a successor for Philip Lane as new member of the ECB Executive Board,” said a spokesperson for the chief of the European Council, who chairs summits of European Union heads of government.
虽然这只是填补一个将于6月1日正式出缺职位的程序性举措，但它将使欧元区官员能够将莱恩的职位与行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德和执行委员会成员伊莎贝尔·施纳贝尔的职位一并进行谈判。
While this is a procedural move to fill a job that officially becomes available from June 1, it will allow euro-area officials to negotiate Lane’s post together with those of President Christine Lagarde and Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel.
欧洲各国政府此前已指向一项“大交易”，计划在11月26日至27日于布鲁塞尔举行的峰会上讨论拉加德的继任者人选，此前她本周宣布将于明年2月离开欧洲央行，比其任期结束早近九个月。
European governments had already pointed to a grand bargain, with a Nov. 26-27 summit in Brussels to discuss Lagarde’s replacement after she announced this week that she’d leave the ECB in February, almost nine months before her term ends.
西班牙人巴勃罗·埃尔南德斯·德科斯和荷兰人克拉斯·克诺特是接替她的热门人选。法国和德国有望填补另外两个职位，以保持其在欧洲央行最高决策小组中的席位。
Spaniard Pablo Hernandez de Cos and Dutchman Klaas Knot are the frontrunners to succeed her. France and Germany are likely to fill the other two posts to maintain their seats on the ECB’s top decision-making panel.
这一举措将责任推给了由希腊的基里亚科斯·皮埃拉卡基斯领导的欧元集团——该集团由欧元区财长组成——要求其在11月9日于布鲁塞尔举行的会议上尽快讨论该问题。此类讨论的结果可能是发出征集候选人的呼吁以填补该职位。
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 Nov. 9 meeting in Brussels. The result of such discussions could be a call for candidates to fill the role.