{"id":1078,"date":"2024-08-16T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/berlin-used-to-be-able-to-lay-down-the-law-on-eu-spending-rules-those-days-are-gone-politico\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:00:37","slug":"berlin-used-to-be-able-to-lay-down-the-law-on-eu-spending-rules-those-days-are-gone-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/berlin-used-to-be-able-to-lay-down-the-law-on-eu-spending-rules-those-days-are-gone-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin used to be able to lay down the law on EU spending rules. Those days are gone. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the words of a senior EU diplomat deeply involved in the negotiations, it \u201cseems to square the circle between northern and southern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hawkish Lindner<\/h3>\n<p>Even if Germany hasn\u2019t got its way entirely, it has picked up some crucial concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the Commission \u2015 which polices the rules \u2015 proposed that it should negotiate bilaterally with governments over debt and deficit reduction. But the latest draft compromise refers to the most indebted countries being obliged to reduce debt by at least 1 percent of GDP per year \u2015 a key priority for Lindner, leader of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-olaf-scholz-angela-merkel-waning-influence-tested-by-tussle-over-eu-spending-rules\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of a senior EU diplomat deeply involved in the negotiations, it \u201cseems to square the circle between northern and southern Europe.\u201d Hawkish Lindner Even if Germany hasn\u2019t got its way entirely, it has picked up some crucial concessions. Originally, the Commission \u2015 which polices the rules \u2015 proposed that it should negotiate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}