Eurogroup in a sentence

Eurogroup chief Paschal Donohoe said the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency is an impetus for the European Union to prepare itself by making its economy less dependent on the US.

Following a speech to Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels - the first given by a UK chancellor since Brexit - Reeves repeated that the UK would not rejoin the single market and customs union or Freedom of Movement, as outlined in the Labour manifesto.

New EU fiscal rules may require deeper-than-expected spending cuts in 2025, Eurogroup signals.

Several ministerial meetings are scheduled to take place before the Eurogroup.

According to the same sources, the government is also receiving proposals and requests for the support of businesses and employees ahead of the March 16 Eurogroup and the measures to be taken at pan-European level.

Government satisfied with Eurogroup results.

The December Eurogroup failed to reach agreement on the reform of the EU’s bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) even though it was considered as a low-hanging fruit on the reform agenda.

The former Finance Minister and recently appointed chairman of the Dutch Safety Board gained a good international reputation in his role as president of the Eurogroup between 2013 and 2018, according to NOS.

Commenting on the two pension scenarios at the end of the Eurogroup meeting on Monday, the head of the European Stability Mechanism Klaus Regling said “it is positive” that Greece presented them.

Cyprus was pulled back from bankruptcy in a 10-billion-euro assistance package by the Eurogroup and the IMF in 2013, after consecutive quarters in the red.

He left national politics after his Labor party was heavily defeated at elections last year, and is set to publish a book on his time as head of the Eurogroup.

Now the hope is that the political goodwill will earn Athens a warmer-than-usual reception when euro zone finance ministers meet in the Eurogroup on Thursday to plot Greece's steps toward exiting its bailout programme, Greek and EU officials said.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed on Monday the deal achieved at the last Eurogroup meeting on Greece’s fourth program review and the debt relief package, in the first cabinet meeting after the meeting of eurozone’s finance ministers on June 21.

Spain's Finance Minister Luis de Guindos (l), and Germany's acting Finance Minister Peter Altmaier (c), talk with Greece's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos during a Eurogroup finance ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels on Monday.

Speaking to reporters, Tsipras said the meeting was held during an auspicious period for Greece after last week’s debt deal at the Eurogroup.

The discussion at the Euro Working Group (EWG) will be mainly technical, as the substance was already agreed upon at the Eurogroup of June 22, as part of debt relief measures to smooth out Greece’s return to the international markets.

The ministry’s strategy is based on the idea that the country’s cash disposables and buffer (33 billion euros) secured through the June 2018 Eurogroup decision will suffice to allow an abstention from the turbulent markets.