The “Informal” Eurogroup and the ECOFIN are meeting today, Sunday, at the EU headquarter in Brussels.The informal group meeting officially starts at 15 PM (CET) , the ECOFIN meeting is set to open at 16 PM. On the agenda is, among other things, the final approval of the Irish bailout. (Please, don’t ask me how an informal group can approve an official international bailout!)

The Informal Euro Group
It’s not clear whether the meeting will be broadcasted LIVE, or not. If it does, I’ll add a link here on this page. However, several of the EU ministers made short comments when they arrived on doorstep at the EU headquarter in Brussels earlier today.
Here’s French finance minister Christine Lagarde:
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Here’s Belgium’s deputy prime minister, Dider Reynders, making comments before the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meeting on 28 November in Brussels:
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Elena Salgado, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economy of Spain, made the following remarks when arriving Brussels:
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Wolfgang Schauble, federal minister for finance of Germany arriving in Brussels:
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Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Finance of Austria, Josef Prôll, comments at the arrival in Brussels before today’s Eurogroup/ ECOFIN meeting:
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