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Eurogroup elects new head as Russian frozen assets debate rages
Eurogroup elects new head as Russian frozen assets debate rages
Economy
by  AFP

Finance ministers from Europe's 20-country single currency area are to choose the next Eurogroup chief on Thursday, as the EU weighs a tough decision on using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. Created in 1997, the body coordinates the economic and budgetary policies of the 20 countries of the eurozone, which will soon number 21, as Bulgaria prepares to adopt the single currency on January 1.