Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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91. To ask the Minister for Finance if his French or German counterparts have written to him or contacted him about the letter signed by EU leaders regarding suggested reforms to the EU budgetary process. [29039/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Neither the French nor German Finance Ministers have written to me in relation to a letter signed by EU leaders regarding suggested reforms to the EU budgetary process. I am not aware of such a letter signed by EU leaders.

Separately, following the meeting of the Eurogroup on 21 June 2018 in Luxembourg, President Centeno wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk in his personal capacity as Eurogroup President to outline the progress made by Finance Ministers and the state of play regarding the main elements of deepening of the Economic and Monetary Union, namely the completion of the Banking Union and the reform of the European Stability Mechanism. At that Eurogroup meeting on 21 June, a communication was sent to Eurogroup President Centeno by 12 Finance Ministers, to which I was a co-signatory, setting out a number of matters that were part of the discussion.