BERLIN: The German government plans to name one of its top economic advisers, Axel Weber, to head the Bundesbank after predecessor Ernst Welteke resigned in an ethics scandal last week, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
Weber, a senior academic who has specialised in monetary policy and advised the Bundesbank and European Central Bank, is a member of the council of economic advisers to the government, also known as the “five wise men”.
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