I trust and hope that our government will insist on debt restructuring, but I can't see how the German finance minister is ever going to sign up to this in the forthcoming
Eurogroup meeting.
Eurozone finance ministers will hold
a Eurogroup meeting that afternoon.
«Greek people are hereby asked to decide whether they accept a draft agreement document submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, at
the Eurogroup meeting held on June 25.»
But Mr Kenny told the Socialist Party TD: «I reject your assertions of any comments made by our Minister for Finance at
the eurogroup meeting.
Once the new measures are approved by Greek lawmakers, Euro zone finance ministers will then discuss the disbursement of loans at the next scheduled
Eurogroup meeting on May 22.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference after the first day of a European Union summit, taking place after
the Eurogroup meeting Thursday, that a deal was urgently needed.
A high - ranking EU official, who often attends
Eurogroup meetings, told CNBC last week that having a common minister seems unlikely in the near term.
Not exact matches
His declaration comes just hours before a crucial
meeting between the finance ministers of the
Eurogroup who are set to decide whether the reforms proposed by the Greek government are good enough to grant an extension on the country's bailout programme.
According to the European Commission, a fully integrated economic and monetary union would need a Treasury led by a EU finance minister, who could chair the
meetings of the euro zone finance ministers — currently known as the
Eurogroup.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said ahead of a
meeting of
eurogroup finance ministers that the 28 - nation bloc...
The
Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers will
meet again on Saturday at 16:00 London time in a last - ditch effort to find an agreement that could release a vital last tranche of bailout aid worth 7.2 billion euros.
Julia Chatterley models the official
Eurogroup poncho ahead of the European finance ministers»
meeting in Dublin
Mr Kenny however rejected Mr Murphy's «speculative comments» on the leaks from the
eurogroup Ministers»
meeting.
After Thursday's
meeting, the
Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that «unfortunately» there had been «too little progress» in talks between the financial institutions and Greece and there was no agreement in sight.
In an uncharacteristically short
meeting of the eurozone's finance ministers in Brussels, president of the
eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the Greek government ought to stop throwing away time and begin enacting the reforms it requirements to complete its $ 7.2 bn in bail - out extension.
The
Eurogroup is a group of nineteen finance ministers of EU countries, who
meet once a month to talk about major economic and monetary policies that are implemented across the EU.