{"id":11876,"date":"2026-05-05T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:44:33","slug":"french-opposition-slams-macrons-nominee-for-central-bank-top-job-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11876\/","title":{"rendered":"French opposition slams Macron\u2019s nominee for central bank top job \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a good-for-nothing who should have resigned from public service after the scandal over the inaccurate public budget forecasts,&#8221; Tanguy told POLITICO in a text message, arguing that Moulin should be held responsible\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-economics-business-tax-increases-spending-cuts-budget-crisis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for France\u2019s budget troubles<\/a>\u00a0as he served at the finance ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s far left also opposes Macron\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Independence is one of the cornerstones of the Bank of France,&#8221; France Unbowed party member and chair of the National Assembly\u2019s finance committee Eric Coquerel wrote in a statement, arguing that Moulin would not act independently, given his proximity to current and past governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the constitution, the bank\u2019s governor is nominated by the president and is appointed by government decree after a parliamentary vote.<\/p>\n<p>But the nominee can be vetoed by parliament if three-fifths of MPs from the finance committees of the National Assembly and the Senate vote against them.\u00a0Coquerel announced the vote will take place on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>With parliament now dominated by opposition parties that swiftly rejected the president\u2019s proposal, Moulin\u2019s approval looks uncertain despite his strong economic credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;He\u2019s a good-for-nothing who should have resigned from public service after the scandal over the inaccurate public budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,9001,1684,36,9002,1337,5,9003,561,1998,8198],"class_list":{"0":"post-11876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-bruno-le-maire","10":"tag-central-banks","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-emmanuel-moulin","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-francois-villeroy-de-galhau","16":"tag-macron","17":"tag-parliament","18":"tag-spectrum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}