European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde walks to address the media after the ECB’s Governing Council meeting, at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, December 18, 2025. REUTERS
PARIS, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that a Financial Times report that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde plans to leave her job early was a “rumour”.
“I read a rumour about Lagarde, I discovered it, it doesn’t seem an information to me, I’ll leave it to the ECB to comment, but it’s a rumour,” Villeroy, an ECB policymaker, told a French parliamentary committee.
He also repeated his decision to stand down in June, more than a year before the end of his term, was a personal one, adding nobody has asked him to leave.
Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta
