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TheEuro summit (also referred to as theeurozone summit oreuro area summit) is the meeting of theheads of stateor government of the member states of theeurozone (thoseEU states which have adopted theeuro). It is distinct from theEU summit held regularly by theEuropean Council, the meeting of all EU leaders.

The Euro summit began as an offshoot of theEuro Group, which is the meeting of the eurozone member's finance ministers.^[1]French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy called for the Euro summit to replace the Euro Group as a "clearly identified economic government" for the eurozone, stating it was not possible for the eurozone to continue without it. The eurozone economic government would discuss issues with the European Central Bank, which would remain independent.^[2] Sarkozy stated that "only heads of state and government have the necessary democratic legitimacy" for the role. This idea was based on the meeting of eurozone leaders in 2008 who met to agree a co-ordinated eurozone response to the banking crisis.^[3]

They first met in the summit format in October 2008, in response to thedebt crisis. Subsequent meetings took place in March 2010, May 2010, March 2011, July 2011 and October 2011.^[1] In the October 2011 meeting, it was agreed to formalise the Euro summit, as at least twice yearly meeting. This change was formalised in the 2012Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the Economic and Monetary Union. Since this formalisation, Heads of State or Government have failed to meet this target of twice yearly meetings in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.^[4] A Euro summit President, separate from theEuro Group President, would be elected at the same time as thePresident of the European Council and under the same rules. Until such an election takes place, the European Council President fulfils that role.^[5][6]

In October 2011, the Eurozone head of states agreed to meet at least twice per year,^[7] as part of measures to improve governance of the Eurozone. Meetings were chaired by presidentHerman Van Rompuy from March 2010^[8] to November 2014.Donald Tusk has been the Euro Summit president since 1 December 2014, and ends his term on 31 May 2017.^[9] The table below lists the date and summary reports of all previous Euro Summits.

New procedure rules forEuro summits were adopted on 14 March 2013,^[27] regulating the Euro Summit shall meet at least twice a year, convened by its president on preferably one of the same dates as theEU summits.^[28] However, for unknown reasons, only one Euro Summit meeting per year took place in 2013 and 2014, and none took place in 2016.

In its informal capacity, thede facto summit President has been theEuropean Council President, meaning thatHerman Van Rompuy chaired all meetings since March 2010 to December 2014. The proposals for formalisation of the summit include electing a President along the same lines (and term) as the European Council President,^[29] and until then Van Rompuy continues to chair the summit. On 1 March 2012, according to theTreaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG), he was formally elected as President of the Euro Summit for the term 1 June 2012 to 30 November 2014.^[8] New president for the term 1 December 2014 until 31 May 2017, is the former Polish Prime MinisterDonald Tusk.^[9] Belgian Prime MinisterCharles Michel was elected new president on 2 July 2019, taking office on 1 December 2019.^[30]

	Representative	Picture	Member State	In office since
	Christian Stocker		Austria	3 March 2025
	Bart De Wever		Belgium	3 February 2025
	Andrej Plenković		Croatia	16 October 2016
	Nikos Christodoulides		Cyprus	28 February 2023
	Kristen Michal		Estonia	23 July 2024
	Petteri Orpo		Finland	20 June 2023
	Emmanuel Macron		France	14 May 2017
	Friedrich Merz		Germany	6 May 2025
	Kyriakos Mitsotakis		Greece	26 June 2023
	Micheál Martin		Ireland	23 January 2025
	Giorgia Meloni		Italy	22 October 2022
	Evika Siliņa		Latvia	15 September 2023
	Gitanas Nausėda		Lithuania	12 July 2019
	Luc Frieden		Luxembourg	17 November 2023
	Robert Abela		Malta	13 January 2020
	Dick Schoof		Netherlands	2 July 2024
	Luís Montenegro		Portugal	2 April 2024
	Robert Fico		Slovakia	25 October 2023
	Robert Golob		Slovenia	1 June 2022
	Pedro Sánchez		Spain	2 June 2018
	António Costa Non-voting chair		European Union	1 December 2024

Notes

Presidents of other EU institutions, such as thePresident of the European Commission and theEuropean Central Bank President also attend. Presidents of the Euro Group and of theEuropean Parliament may be invited and the President of the Euro Summit shall present a report to the European Parliament after each of the meetings of the Euro Summit. Heads of state or government of non-eurozone signatories to theEuropean Fiscal Compact treaty participate, at least once a year, for those policies of the treaty that apply to them. In some summits, other leaders might attend discussions, for example theBritish Prime Minister attending the 2008 summit.

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