Election throws Germany’s legendary ‘debt brake’ into query
The fiscal straitjacket has already helped to convey down Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition, making an election doubtless on Feb. 23. The coalition collapsed earlier this month largely as a result of Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s proposals to maintain the deficit inside limits all proved unacceptable to his coalition companions, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the […] More