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The special session of top European officials is to start about 8:30 a.m. Monday, when a scheduled meeting between Mr. Van Rompuy and the cheap clothing stores of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, will be expanded to include Mr. Trichet; the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn; and Jean-Claude Juncker, the finance minister for Luxembourg, who presides over meetings of the so-called Eurogroup of finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the euro as their official currency.

Vittorio Grilli, the director general of the Italian treasury, is also scheduled to attend. But Dirk De Backer, wholesale designer clothing for Mr. Van Rompuy, said Mr. Grilli would be there in his capacity as head of the euro zone’s Economic and Financial Committee and not to discuss his country’s economy.

“There is absolutely no crisis meeting,” Mr. De Backer said. “This is a coordination meeting to cheap clothes for the Eurogroup. It is not the aim or purpose to talk about Italy.”

Some officials played down the meeting, pointing out that Germany, which has the cheap clothes online in the European Union, would not be on hand and that Mr. Van Rompuy and Mr. Barroso would not take part in the later gathering of euro zone finance ministers.