I'm not a hopeful for EC occupation, says IMF supervisor Lagarde

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IMF boss Christine Lagarde has said she is not in the race to be the following president of the European Commission.

Ms Lagarde said she aims to see out her five-year term as manager of the world's monetary guard dog, including: "I am not a competitor. I have an occupation."

The likelihood of Ms Lagarde accepting the occupation had apparently been talked about by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.

The UK has made clear its resistance to leader Jean-Claude Juncker.

In a matter of seconds before joining Ms Lagarde at an IMF question and answer session in London, Chancellor George Osborne underlined the UK's view that whoever heads the European Commission must comprehend "the requirement for change" and not disregard the EU's "powerless" financial record and the displeasure demonstrated by voters in late surveys.

"Urgent" assaults

Asked at the question and answer session in the event that she would consider heading the Commission after present president Jose Manuel Barroso steps down in October, Ms Lagarde said she expected to see out her term at the IMF, which closes in 2016.

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Jean-Claude Juncker

The BBC's Chris Morris composes: Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker is authoritatively "more sure than at any other time" that he will land the position, yet endeavors by his supporters to present triumph as a fait accompli have been ceased in their tracks. EU ambassadors near Mr Juncker concede that a few nations are wary, however they demand that stand out - the UK - is unashamedly restricted to their man. He could in any case win, however it won't be simple.

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"On this EU thing, I am not a competitor," said the previous French money priest.

"I have an occupation, I happen to think it is a fairly vital employment and I mean to finish my term."

Mr Juncker, the previous executive of Luxembourg, has the support of the German chancellor.

The choice on who will lead the EU's official body has gotten to be progressively caustic, with Mr Juncker blaming the British media for trying to damage his application and making "edgy" strike on him.

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As the favored hopeful of the European People's Party, the inside right gathering which won the most seats in a month ago European Parliament races, Mr Juncker is in shaft position to take the key occupation.

Open annoyance

Be that as it may a few nations, including the UK, Sweden and Hungary, are unwilling to help him, feeling that he is not an element reformer and has an unswerving confidence in closer political union between EU part states.

Different competitors notwithstanding Ms Lagarde have been touted - including ex-WTO manager Pascal Lamy - despite the fact that adversaries of Mr Juncker have not combine around a solitary single person.

Got some information about the UK's stance on BBC Radio 4's Today program, Mr Osborne did not specify Mr Juncker by name and said he would not examine people.

Anyhow he said: "We need individuals running these European foundations who unmistakably comprehend the requirement for change. We have simply had European decisions where in this nation as well as crosswise over Europe, individuals said plainly they were not content with how Europe was functioning.

David Cameron (right), Angela Merkel and Herman van Rompuy, president of the European Council The UK and Germany vary over who ought to take the EU's top employment

"Any individual who needs one of these critical employments in Europe and they influence the majority of our lives, needs to show, in my view, that they comprehend individuals' displeasure at what has happened in Europe and comprehend the requirement for change in Europe."

Mr Osborne said the moderate recuperation of a significant part of the eurozone from the subsidence, conversely with the UK's speedier development, indicated the requirement for new thinking in Brussels.

He included: "Britain is looking for change for Europe's purpose, not only Britain's purpose... we have got to have a reaction crosswise over Europe to the decision comes about, the frail budgetary execution, we have got to have change in Europe."

Ms Merkel, who has given Mr Juncker her open support, examined the issue with Mr Cameron on the edges of a gathering of G7 pioneers in Brussels on Thursday.

Be that as it may, he is additionally said to have shown his eagerness to arrange.

EU pioneers customarily pick the Commission head on their own, yet under new controls need to "consider" the consequences of the European races.