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We have voted against ‘the appointment of Jean-Claude Trichet as president of the European Central Bank’ partly because of the institution but also because of the man himself.
The ECB is responsible, in the field of money and credit, for applying a policy which is entirely favourable to employers in the European Union and, consequently, entirely unfavourable to the working classes. We oppose the very purpose of this institution, whoever is in charge of it.
Nor, however, did we want to let the man himself off. Before being nominated for this position, Jean-Claude Trichet was the governor of the Banque de France. In this capacity, he is responsible for a ‘restructuring’ plan at this bank that has resulted in half of the branches being closed and the loss of over 2 000 jobs, in other words more than a quarter of the bank’s staff. A man who is happy to carry out such jobs deserves no more support than the institution whose reins he is about to take over."@en1
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