CashNews.co Pension reform ideas backed by Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner and his liberal party FDP are again set to test a fragile government coalition. In a recently tabled programme for a new era of economic growth in Germany, called Economic turnaround in Germanythe finance minister included austerity measures to cut public spending on pensions and […]
CashNews.co eurotopics.netGermany’s traffic light coalition in crisisA policy paper by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) that was leaked on Friday has triggered a major dispute among the three….3 hours ago Read More #cashnews #German #finance
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CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has summoned his economy and finance ministers to a series of crisis meetings aimed at saving Germany’s increasingly raucous coalition government. Relations between Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and their coalition partners […]
CashNews.co A senior figure in Germany’s smallest coalition party refused to rule out a government collapse on Monday, challenging bigger parties to change course on budgetary policy at the start of a make-or-break week for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s tottering Cabinet and a difficult period for Europe’s largest economy. Bijan Djir-Sarai, general secretary of Finance Minister […]
CashNews.co German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Economy and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck and Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend debates about the 2024 federal budget at the Bundestag on January 31, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Germany’s ruling coalition has long been on shaky ground, amid increasing divisions […]
CashNews.co Amid simmering tensions over Germany’s 2025 budget, the country’s coalition government is teetering further toward the brink of collapse after a leaked position paper by finance minister Christian Lindner from the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) showed to be starkly at odds with coalition partners on key policy questions. The paper titled “Economic transition for […]
CashNews.co Germany’s ruling coalition has long been on shaky ground, amid increasing divisions over economic and budget policies among its three member parties. Differences about how to support the struggling German economy and the 2025 budget are causing tensions. “All in all, we think that the risk of the German government collapsing has never been […]
CashNews.co BERLIN (Reuters) – German companies are less willing to hire new staff than at any point in more than four years, data from the Ifo institute showed on Monday, as weakness in Europe’s largest economy has left its mark on the country’s labour market. Ifo’s employment barometer fell to 93.7 points in October from […]
CashNews.co The Lindner paper is just another step in an almost endless list of ever growing tensions within the German government. Up to now, the risk of snap elections had been relatively low as none of the three coalition parties had an interest in earlier elections, given their weak polling results. It now increasingly looks […]