MOSCOW: German Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner (pix) said on Wednesday that the country’s yet unadopted 2024 budget has a potential hole of 17 billion euros (US$18.65 billion), reported Sputnik.

“Regarding the 2024 budget, I proceed from the fact that we need to make a decision on approximately 17 billion euros. For comparison, the federal budget as a whole is 450 billion euros,“ Lindner said in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF when asked about a potential hole in the 2024 budget against the background of the current budget crisis in the country.

The German…