Finance Minister Brian Lenihan was set for talks on the future of Anglo-Irish Bank with European counterparts and Commission chiefs today.

EU finance ministers called on oil producers to provide adequate supplies at today's Ecofin meeting, according to Ireland's representative Charlie McCreevy.

The Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, has said he looks forward to making good progress at the second meeting of the Council of Economics and Finance Ministers of the European Union (Ecofin Council) in Brussels tomorrow.

FINANCE Minister Charlie McCreevy chairs his first Ecofin meeting in Brussels today amid concern over the strength of the euro against the dollar.

FINANCE Minister Charlie McCreevy will spend 750,000 hosting fellow EU finance ministers at a summit at his favoured venue, Punchestown Racecourse, next May.

GOVERNMENT ministers’ home constituencies will reap financial dividends from Ireland’s EU Presidency next year.

The EU Council of Ministers is due to discuss Ireland's budgetary spending and subsequent rap on the knuckles today.