The pandemic continues and the coffers are emptying.
This is the worrying observation facing the German federal government, which at the start of the health crisis, had wide open its portfolio to companies.
A record budget of 130 billion euros had been planned over two years to help the economy.
On the eve of the second confinement, in October, Berlin even promised to compensate up to 75% for the loss of turnover of establishments - mainly hotels and restaurants - generated by the closures.
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While the latter should be extended until January 10 and the number of new infections is struggling to decline, this spending momentum is called into question.
"
Aid of this magnitude is difficult to sustain for several months
", warned in the daily
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW, one of the main economic institutes.
The Minister of Finance has assessed the amount of the "plan
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