Merkel to meet Danish, Dutch, Estonian leaders on euro
(BERLIN) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with her Danish, Dutch and Estonian counterparts on Monday to discuss the euro crisis ahead of a European Union summit in March, her spokesman said.
The four-way talks are "an informal exchange of views on the future of the currency union and the European Union in general," Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
There is no news conference planned after the meeting, he added.
Merkel's meeting with Helle Thorning Schmidt, Mark Rutte and Andrus Ansip follows similar talks with the leaders of Portugal, Sweden and Austria last month.
Seibert said she intended to hold more talks of this type in the future.
Denmark is not a member of the eurozone but is the current leader of the European Union's rotating presidency. Estonia is the most recent member of the 17-nation zone.
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