German Budget Hawk Steers Faltering Coalition as Far Right Rises
- Finance minister sees his party as bulwark against surging AfD
- Lindner’s tough fiscal talk appeals to his Free Democrat base
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When German Finance Minister Christian Lindner was asked this year where he sits on the “government boat” – in the middle, at the stern or on the lower deck — he didn’t hesitate: “At the helm.”