Schaeuble Says Germany Continuing Growth-Friendly Policies
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the budget plan for 2013 shows the government is continuing its “policy of growth-friendly deficit reduction.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved a spending plan today that balances Germany’s federal budget three years earlier than required by its own rules. Ministers backed the 2013 draft budget and a spending blueprint through 2016.
Germany’s net federal borrowing will decline from 18.8 billion euros ($23.6 billion) next year to 13.1 billion euros in 2014, then 4.7 billion euros in 2015 before touching zero in 2016, according to the plan presented by the Finance Ministry on June 22, which now goes to parliament.
The so-called structural deficit of the federal budget will shrink to 0.35 percent of gross domestic product next year, equal to the limit set in Germany’s national debt-reduction rules, according to the plan.
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