{"id":431027,"date":"2025-06-27T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/27\/presidenza-eurogruppo-corsa-a-a-tre\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:27:41","slug":"ireland-spain-and-lithuania-three-way-race-for-eurogroup-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/27\/ireland-spain-and-lithuania-three-way-race-for-eurogroup-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland, Spain, and Lithuania: Three-way race for Eurogroup presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; <strong>It will be a three-way race for the presidency of the Eurogroup<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/donohoe-to-run-for-third-eurogroup-term-and-may-already-have-the-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Following the candidacy put forward by the outgoing president<\/a>, Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe of the EPP, <strong>also the Finance Ministers of Spain and Lithuania<\/strong>, Carlos Cuerpos and Rimantas \u0160ad\u017eius, both socialists, made official their\u00a0intention to chair the informal body.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The election of the new president will take place at the meeting of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/meetings\/eurogroup\/2025\/07\/07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">E<\/span>urogroup on 7 July<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: inherit;\">A<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: inherit;\"><strong>simple majority of votes, at least 11 out of 20, is required<\/strong> for 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