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Germany seeks to limit Brussels’ scope on national debt reduction plans

Germany wants stricter debt reduction rules for high-debt countries and tighter restraints on the European Commission’s scope to agree fiscal plans with EU capitals, as the bloc prepares for a sweeping overhaul of the union’s budget rules.

In a policy paper seen by the Financial Times, Berlin demanded that debt-to-GDP ratios of heavily indebted countries should fall by 1 percentage point a year. For countries with less onerous…

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