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Problems pile up in the IMF in-tray
Unless the bookies have got it very wrong, it looks as though French finance minister Christine Lagarde will be installed as the head of the International Monetary Fund before Dominique Strauss-Kahn has even stood trial for attempted rape. With Angela Merkel publicly backing her, all the signs were there this weekend that Europe is close to stitching up international finance's top job, as it has done on every other occasion since the IMF was founded in 1945. The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, described her as a "great choice", a view echoed by ministers from Austria and Sweden. The US is keeping its powder ... (full story)