Pedro Solbes, Commissioner for monetary and economic affairs, European Union

Jürgen Karcher, Managing director and country head of fixed income, Germany, Salomon Smith Barney

Jürgen Karcher, Managing director and country head of fixed income, Germany, Salomon Smith Barney

Pedro Solbes, a former Spanish finance minister who in September took up his post as European Union commissioner for monetary and economic affairs, is reckoned to be one of the ablest politicians from the Spanish centre-left and one of the most tireless negotiators on the continent. He is also well acquainted with the Brussels EU bureaucracy, having spent almost his entire career in jobs linked in some way to matters European.

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