Martin Wolf interviews Christine Lagarde: Whither Europe?

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  In today's episode, I'm speaking to Christine Lagarde.

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  Christine has had a truly remarkable career.

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  She started off as a lawyer, and she was chair of Baker & McKenzie,

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  a very famous American law firm, between 1999 and 2004.

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  She returned to France in 2005 as Minister of Foreign Trade,

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  briefly served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries,

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  and finally she became Minister of finance in 2007 and continued in that role to 2011.

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  At that point, she was elected to replace Dominique Strauss Kahn as Managing Director of the imf,

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  and she had a second term.

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  And then finally in 2019, she became president of the ECB and as chair of Baker & MacKenzie,

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  and also as Minister of Finance in France and as Managing Director of the IMF and as President of the ecb.

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  She was the first woman in all those roles.

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  I'm delighted to be with you today, Christine.

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  Thank you, Martin.

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  I'm delighted to be here with you, too.

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  I also try to remember when we first met.

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  I think it was in San Gallen at a dinner when.

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  I believe you were Agriculture Minister at that time.

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  That's right.

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  Don't you remember?

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