President of the Eurogroup and Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Paschal Donohoe TD, is in Brussels today (Friday) to attend the Euro Summit meeting of European EU leaders. At the Euro Summit he will be joined by the President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, to discuss the economic situation in the euro area and economic policy coordination. Minister Donohoe will also speak on the work that Eurogroup has undertaken over the course of the past 12 months to progress the Capital Markets Union in response to a call from European leaders. The Eurogroup statement adopted last week by all EU finance ministers contains a shared set of policy priorities and actions to deepen European capital markets in the next few years.