{"id":1705,"date":"2024-10-05T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/german-coalition-passes-2025-budget-after-months-of-wrangling\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:10:18","slug":"german-coalition-passes-2025-budget-after-months-of-wrangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.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>BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) &#8211; 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<div data-testid=\"paragraph-3\" 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\">Lindner said the constitutionality of these options is&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/german-coalition-set-pass-2025-budget-mid-term-financial-plan-2024-07-17\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) &#8211; 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1705","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\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}