Christine Lagarde will quickly have to figure out how to fix the eurozone's sagging economy. First she will have to win favor in Germany.
FRANKFURT—Christine Lagarde may be world renowned as head of the International Monetary Fund, but her first big challenge as European Central Bank president would be to win over skeptics in her next home country: Germany.
She is set to take the reins as the ECB faces critical decisions in the coming months over how to support the eurozone’s sagging economy. That could mean expanding or relaunching a giant bond-buying program that has been criticized by German officials.
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