Washington (AFP)

The future President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde criticizes, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on the American channel CBS, the mania of Donald Trump tweeter on monetary policy.

To the reporter of the show "60 minutes" questioning what it could answer the President of the United States, whose tweets regularly mock the policy of the US Central Bank (Fed), the former boss of the IMF responds: "The stability of the markets should not be tweeted here or a tweet by that".

"It requires consideration, reflection, calm, measured and rational decisions," she continues in thinly veiled criticisms of the Republican billionaire's attitude.

The White House host has been critical of the Fed and its president Jerome Powell for months, blaming them for the US economic slowdown.

After slamming the rate hike in late 2018, Donald Trump estimates for months that their decline does not go far enough. "The Fed remains sitting without doing anything"; "Where did I find this guy, Jerome?" "The only problem we have is Jay Powell and the Fed," are among his many sharp tweets.

The American presidents had always respected the independence of the Central Bank.

"A governor of a central bank does his best if he is independent," also insisted Christine Lagarde, who will take office at the ECB on 1 November.

On the frontline of trade tensions, she urges world leaders to work together to find a consensus. "My very, very strong message to all the decision-makers is: please, sit down like big men (...), put everything on the table and try to settle little by little, piece by piece" litigation to dispel uncertainty.

When it takes the head of the ECB, the use of interest rates will be limited to stimulate the European economy, because the rates are already in negative territory.

Christine Lagarde left her chair as Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund on September 12 after eight years with the Washington institution. She was replaced by Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, who took over on 1 October.

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