{"id":26385,"date":"2025-04-17T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26385\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:49:08","slug":"spain-and-lithuania-push-to-oust-ireland-from-leading-eurozone-talks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26385\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Lithuania push to oust Ireland from leading eurozone talks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most officials, however, say that Donohoe is likely to cling on to his job, although a three-horse race dents his chances of being reelected at the first round.<\/p>\n<p>If no one wins an outright majority on the first attempt, the two candidates with the most votes face off against each other in a decisive ballot the same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf three countries vote for \u0160ad\u017eius at the first round, then Donohoe needs a very big majority among the others to be immediately elected,\u201d said a government official.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2195038916-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6481881\"  \/>A veteran finance minister, Rimantas \u0160ad\u017eius is expected to gather support among countries bordering Russia, which are hawkish on defense, notably Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. | Martin Bertrand\/Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>While the race hasn&#8217;t yet formally started, speculation is running rife about how countries will position themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran finance minister, \u0160ad\u017eius is expected to gather support among countries bordering Russia, which are hawkish on defense, notably Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>Cuerpo, on the other hand, is likely to get the backing of pro-spending southern states such as Portugal and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most officials, however, say that Donohoe is likely to cling on to his job, although a three-horse race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[473,33,1112,2000,299,2915,474,769,36,678,1113,1114,16134,16135,46,3046,16136,332,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-26385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-estonia","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-exclusive","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-finland","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latvia","19":"tag-lithuania","20":"tag-nadia-calvino","21":"tag-paschal-donohoe","22":"tag-policy","23":"tag-portugal","24":"tag-rimantas-sadzius","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351031191091121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}