Eurogroup Finance Ministers Meet in Brussels

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Markus Marterbauer, Austria's finance minister, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's finance minister, Vincent Van Peteghem, Belgium's finance minister, and Pierre Gramegna, managing director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), left to right, at a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Speculation is well under way about who will succeed Christine Lagarde as European Central Bank president at the end of next year. Photographer: Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg via Getty Images