Top ECB official resigns after questioning stimulus

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A member of the European Central Bank’s leadership has resigned after publicly questioning the need for the bank’s stimulus efforts, opening an unexpected vacancy on the institutions’ top executive body amid public criticism of its policies by some of its own officials.
Sabine Lautenschlaeger’s resignation comes amid criticism in her native Germany of the stimulus program decided by the bank under President Mario Draghi, who is to be succee