by Aurélia END Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court on Monday found IMF head Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence over a massive state payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister but spared her a fine or prison sentence. The ruling was a rare setback in Lagarde’s glittering career but it was not clear how it would affect her position at the International Monetary Fund, whose board was […]
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IMF boss Lagarde says will run for second mandate
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday (January 22) she will run for a second term. Christine Lagarde has no obvious challengers and has said previously she was open to serving another term. “Yes I am candidate to a second mandate. I was honoured to receive from the start of the process the backing of France, Britain, Germany, China, Korea, Mexico,” she told France 2 television in an interview from […]





