The bank’s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, was expected to attend the dinner Thursday with European leaders and had been expected by some to call for more capital.
But diplomats were still expecting pressure at the dinner to increase the value of the bailout fund in the short term or to show more flexibility in how it is used.

Spain is said to favor a change to allow the fund to buy government debt, an idea that probably would win support from the central bank and the European Commission, the bloc’s executive agency. Belgium’s finance minister, Didier Reynders, has called for doubling the fund.