Lagarde and the controversy over the ECB Governing Council photo: "A woman and 23 white men" – Fashion

"Dear Lagarde, I hope it is a joke: not even a vaguely brown person – but this would be too much – but even she is the only one of three women in that room. The other two are painted," writes Rageh Omaar, journalist of Itv News and writer. "Really incredible, have you ever heard of diversity and inclusion?", Answers a doctor from Nairobi.

And there are dozens of tweets, from people from the world of politics and the economy, including the Indian economist and writer Rupa Subramanya, and women and men from all over the world who take the photograph defining it as discriminating both for women and for non-white people.

An image that tells something more than a world perhaps little known as well as little known are the elective dynamics of the organs of the ECB. The executive board is composed of the six members of the Executive Council, in addition to the governors of the central banks of the 19 countries of the euro area. Twenty-five people in all. Isabel Schnabel is missing from the photo, the only other woman besides Lagarde. "Tell your governors," writes Michael Steen, the ECB's head of public relations, in response to numerous criticisms received.