Council Recommendation of 3 May 1998 concerning the appointment of the President, the Vice-President and other Members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Mitgliedstaaten haben in Anbetracht der Empfehlung des Rates der Europäischen Union vom 3. Mai 1998 zur Ernennung der Mitglieder der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) ihre Zustimmung zur Ernennung von Wim Duisenberg als Präsident der EZB gegeben. Auszug aus der Pressekonferenz des britischen Premierministers und Präsidenten des Rates in der Zusammensetzung der Staats- und Regierungschefs Tony Blair zur Ernennung von Wim Duisenberg und zu dessen Nachfolge.

Dieses Video zeigt verschiedene Ausschnitte aus den Anhörungen der Kandidaten für Posten im Direktorium der Europäischen Zentralbank vor dem Europäischen Parlament und Bilder der Abstimmung vom 13. Mai 1998 in der Plenarsitzung. Diese Abstimmung findet statt, nachdem Christa Randzio-Plath die Empfehlungen des Ausschusses für Wirtschaft, Währung und Industriepolitik zur Nominierung von Wim Duisenberg, Christian Noyer, Eugenio Domingo Solans, Sirkka Hämäläinen, Otmar Issing und Tommaso Padoa Schioppa präsentiert hat.

Decision taken by common accord of the Governments of the Member States adopting the single currency at the level of Heads of State or Government of 26 May 1998 appointing the President, the Vice-President and the other members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (98/345/EC).

Decision taken by common accord, at the level of Heads of State or Government, by the Governments of the Member States having the Euro as their currency of 20 May 2005 appointing a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (2005/391/EC).

Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Monetary Institute from 1 July 1997 to 31 May 1998 and President of the European Central Bank from 1 June 1998 to 31 October 2003.

Lists of members of the decision-making bodies of the European Central Bank.

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank from 1 November 2003.

The members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. Front row, from left to right: Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Jean-Claude Trichet (President), Lucas D. Papademos (Vice-President). Back row, from left to right: Jürgen Stark, José Manuel González-Páramo, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi.

Lucas D. Papademos: Vice-President of the European Central Bank and, as such, member of the ECB’s Executive Board.

José Manuel González-Páramo, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

Jürgen Stark, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

The members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. Front row (standing from left to right): José Manuel González-Páramo, Miguel Fernández Ordóñez, Lucas D. Papademos, Jean-Claude Trichet, Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Yves Mersch, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi. Middle row: Axel A. Weber, Christian Noyer, Klaus Liebscher, Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio, John Hurley, Nout Wellink. Back row: Jürgen Stark, Erkki Liikanen, Nicholas C. Garganas, Guy Quaden, Mario Draghi, Mitja Gaspari (replaced by Marko Kranjec).

The members of the General Council of the European Central Bank. Front row, from left to right: Ilmars Rimševics, Michael C. Bonello, Lucas D. Papademos, Jean-Claude Trichet, Miguel Fernández Ordóñez, Christodoulos Christodoulou (replaced by Athanasios Orphanides), Yves Mersch, Nout Wellink, Andres Lipstok. Middle row: Erkki Liikanen, Axel A. Weber, Christian Noyer, Klaus Liebscher, Ivan Iskrov, Vítor Constâncio, John Hurley, Mitja Gaspari (replaced by Marko Kranjec). Back row: Zsigmond Járai (succeeded by András Simor on 3 March 2007), Ivan Šramko, Nils Bernstein, Zdenek Tuma, Nicholas C. Garganas, Guy Quaden, Stefan Ingves, Mario Draghi, Reinoldijus Šarkinas, Leszek Balcerowicz (succeeded by Slawomir Skrzypek), Mugur Isarescu. Mervyn King was not present for the photograph.