New Euro leaders face familiar fault-lines

CHRISTINE Lagarde urged Europe on Tuesday not to "allow self-doubt to drag us down" in her first major speech as new European Central Bank (ECB) president. Despite a big change in the economic and political leadership in Brussels this month, the challenges facing the continent will remain eerily familiar into 2020, from Brexit to Eurozone economic frailty.

Only last month, Ms Lagarde's predecessor as ECB chief, Mario Draghi, warned of growing Eurozone weakness concerns with Germany on the …