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PRESS Council of the EU EN PRESS RELEASE 715/17 30/11/2017 Four candidates declared for Eurogroup presidency Four ministers have put forward their candidacy to become president of the Eurogroup: Mario Centeno, minister of finance of Portugal; Pierre Gramegna, minister of finance of Luxembourg; Peter Kazimir, minister of finance of Slovakia; Dana Reizniece-Ozola, minister of finance of Latvia; The election of the new president will take place on 4 December, by means of a simple majority vote, in line with protocol 14 of the EU treaty. If none of the candidates receives at least 10 of the 19 votes by the Eurogroup members at the end of the first voting round, each candidate will be informed individually of the number of votes that he/she has received. Candidates will then have the opportunity to withdraw their application. Voting will take place until a simple majority is reached on one of the candidates. The winner will be announced to the ministers at the end of the vote and presented at the Eurogroup press conference, immediately afterwards. The new president will succeed Jeroen Dijsselbloem upon the expiry of his mandate, on 13 January 2018, for a period of 2.5 years. The Eurogroup is an informal body where ministers of euro area member states discuss matters of common concern shared in relation to sharing the euro as the single currency. It focuses on the close coordination of economic policies. It usually meets once a month, on the eve of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. The first Eurogroup meeting took place on 4 June 1998 in Luxembourg. The first president of the Eurogroup was Jean-Claude Juncker. Jeroen Dijsselbloem succeeded him in January 2013 and was re-elected in July 2015. Call for applications for new Eurogroup president List of members of the Eurogroup Press office - General Secretariat of the Council Rue de la Loi 175 - B-1048 BRUSSELS - Tel.: +32 (0)2 281 6319 [email protected] - www.consilium.europa.eu/press.

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