Portuguese Teixeira dos Santos amongst the WORST Finance ministers in Europe

Financial Times' Ranking list of European Ministers of Finance

1. Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany

2. Jacek Rostowski, Poland

3. Christine Lagarde, France

4. Anders Borg, Sweden

5. Jyrk Katainen, Finland

6. George Osborne, United Kingdom

7. Didier Reynders, Belguim

8. George Papaconstantinou, Greece

9. Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxemburg

9. Ivan Miklos, Slovakia

11. Jan Kees de Jager, Netherlands

12. Miroslav Kalousek, Chec Republic

13. Josef Pröll, Austria

14. Giulio Tremonti, Italy

15. Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Denmark

16. Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Portugal

17. György Matolcsy, Hungria

18. Elena Salgado, Spain

19. Brian Lenihan, Ireland

Teixeira dos Santos was deemed as reacting too slowly

in face of the financial crisis facing Portugal,

while questioning his political clout at the same time.

Teixeira dos Santos was classified at

18th out of 19 for international credibility.