{"id":321,"date":"2024-07-29T04:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/german-coalition-passes-2025-budget-after-months-of-wrangling\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:39","slug":"german-coalition-passes-2025-budget-after-months-of-wrangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/german-coalition-passes-2025-budget-after-months-of-wrangling\/","title":{"rendered":"German coalition passes 2025 budget after months of wrangling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Maria Martinez<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -The German cabinet passed its 2025 budget on Wednesday after months of wrangling, even though a 17 billion euro ($18.6 billion) gap between projected spending and revenue has still to be covered.<\/p>\n<p>German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told a news conference that the government was looking at innovative ways to reduce the gap.<\/p>\n<p>The options under scrutiny are using extra funds from the state bank KfW and converting the grants of Germany&#8217;s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn and the highway company into loans.<\/p>\n<p>Lindner said the constitutionality of these options is being studied, as the government is trying&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/german-coalition-set-pass-2025-050508011.html?rdrctId=60abf9fc-c4aa-3c21-a285-5445b3fc13db\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -The German cabinet passed its 2025 budget on Wednesday after months of wrangling, even though a 17 billion euro ($18.6 billion) gap between projected spending and revenue has still to be covered. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told a news conference that the government was looking at innovative ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[174,176,177,46,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance","7":"tag-christian-lindner","8":"tag-coalition-government","9":"tag-economic-package","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-spending"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}