Saturday, July 7, 2007

France seeks IMF job but Europe's grip challenged

(Reuters) - France revealed on Friday that it wanted to reclaim the leadership of the International Monetary Fund and Poland said it could field a rival candidate as calls intensified for the abolition of Europe's monopoly of the job.

President Nicolas Sarkozy planned to use a Sunday newspaper interview to propose Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist former finance minister with solid political and economic credentials, to become the IMF's new managing director, a presidential palace source in Paris said.


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