Eurogroup Head Donohoe Confident Omicron Won’t Derail Recovery

Eurogroup Head Donohoe Confident Omicron Won’t Derail Recovery
Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe talks to journalists as he arrives for the second day of an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, on June 25, 2021. Olivier Matthys/Pool via Reuters
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DUBLIN—The head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers Paschal Donohoe is confident the region’s recovery can be sustained into next year even if the Omicron coronavirus variant requires new public health measures, he told the Reuters Next conference.

Donohoe, who is Ireland’s finance minister, said his confidence reflected how economies have increasingly demonstrated their ability to limit the damage from restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus.