Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes has urged European leaders to scrap plans for an EU Finance Minister.
Economic and Monetary Union reform is set to be discussed at a summit later this month.
MEPs gathering in Strasbourg have been discussing their priorities ahead of that meeting.
Dublin MEP Brian Hayes says any move to appoint an EU Finance Minister, would be a " weapon of mass destruction for the Eurosceptic movement":
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