Jean-Marc Vittori
French journalist Jean-Marc Vittori (b. 1958) writes about economic policy and current affairs in France and other major industrial countries. He worked for several business magazines before being appointed to his current post as editor of Les Echos in 2003. His book "Dictionnaire d’économie à l’usage des non-économistes" (A Dictionary of Economics for Non-Economists) was published by Grasset in 2008.
Updated: 5 October 2010
Who will succeed Jean-Claude Trichet? Now that Germany’s Axel Weber is no longer in the running, and while Europe continues to battle with the effects of a global economic storm, no candidate clearly fulfills the criteria to take the helm at the European Central bank. 
In an effort to develop a sustainable European monetary policy, the EU will have to change the rules of the game and establish a federal budgetary system that actually works. Writing in Les Echos, Jean-Marc Vittori argues that the future of the eurozone and the EU will depend on rising to the challenge.