{"id":1432,"date":"2024-09-06T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/german-finance-ministry-advisory-board-doubtful-about-efforts-to-reduce-budget-gap\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:30:15","slug":"german-finance-ministry-advisory-board-doubtful-about-efforts-to-reduce-budget-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/german-finance-ministry-advisory-board-doubtful-about-efforts-to-reduce-budget-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"German finance ministry advisory board doubtful about efforts to reduce budget gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BERLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The advisory board to the German Finance Ministry sees the three options under consideration to reduce a 17 billion euro ($18 billion) budget shortfall as problematic, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">The German cabinet <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/german-coalition-set-pass-2025-budget-mid-term-financial-plan-2024-07-17\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\">passed its 2025 budget<\/a> in July after months of political wrangling. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told a news conference that the government was looking at innovative ways to reduce the shortfall.<\/div>\n<p>The options under scrutiny are using extra funds from state bank KfW, as well as converting the grants of Germany&#8217;s national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/german-finance-ministry-advisory-board-doubtful-about-efforts-reduce-budget-gap-2024-08-01\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The advisory board to the German Finance Ministry sees the three options under consideration to reduce a 17 billion euro ($18 billion) budget shortfall as problematic, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The German cabinet passed its 2025 budget in July after months of political wrangling. German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1432","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\/1432","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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}