On Friday 27 June, the Irish, Spanish and Lithuanian finance ministers officially submitted their candidatures for the presidency of the Eurogroup, the informal body that brings together the euro area’s finance ministers.
In their candidacy letters to their counterparts, Ireland’s Paschal Donohoe, Spain’s Carlos Cuerpo and Lithuania’s Rimantas Šadžius all stress the importance of the Eurogroup for: - facilitating the coordination of budgetary and economic policies within the euro...