{"id":441785,"date":"2025-12-11T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/12\/11\/alla-grecia-la-guida-delleurogruppo-pierrakakis-presidente\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:34:26","slug":"greece-to-lead-eurogroup-pierrakakis-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/12\/11\/greece-to-lead-eurogroup-pierrakakis-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece to lead Eurogroup: Pierrakakis as president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Kyriakos Pierrakakis is the new president of the Eurogroup<\/strong>. The Greek finance minister finds support from the other economic ministers of the informal organisation of the EU Council to fill the post left by Paschal Donohoe after his resignation<\/a> to take up a post<\/span> at the World Bank. For the 42-year-old Hellenic, a two-and-a-half-year term, until 11 June 2028<\/strong>. Decisive was Germany’s support, which shifted the balance and allowed convergence on the candidate’s name from Athens, who will take office <\/strong><\/span>tomorrow, 12 December<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

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Kyriakos Pierrakakis
\nhis resignation<\/a>., Minister of National @Pierrakakis<\/a> and Finance, has been elected President of the #Economy<\/a>. #Eurogroup <\/a>pic.twitter.com\/j3C4ibapwh<\/a>\u2014 <\/p>\n

Greece in EU (@GreeceInEU) 
\nDecember 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For Greece, the presidency of the Eurogroup is a moment fraught with significance<\/b>. Ten years after the economic crisis that raised fears of Athens leaving the eurozone<\/b>, it is Greece itself that is leading the Eurogroup. A choice that also shows that the tear-and-blood cure imposed on the country has worked, enabling the country to move from a situation with fears of a \u201cGrexit\u201d<\/strong> <\/span> to one with Athens directing the policies of the single currency.<\/p>\n

 The first to congratulate the new Eurogroup President is the Finance Minister of Latvia, Arvils Aseradens<\/strong>: “I wish you every success in leading the Eurogroup forward, to evolve, adapt, and face future challenges with clarity, determination, and strong collective commitment.”<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Born as a socialist, Pierrakakis militated in PASOK from 2012 to 2016, then switched to Nea Dimokratia, a centre-right party affiliated to the EPP. With master’s degrees from Harvard University and MIT in Boston, during the New Democracy-PASOK coalition government (2012\u20132013), Pierrakakis was a member of the Greek delegation to negotiations with the “Troika” (European Commission, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the Athens finance minister a two-and-a-half-year term, with German support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":441766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25994,25828],"class_list":["post-441785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-eurogroup-en","tag-eurozone-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441786,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441785\/revisions\/441786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}