“Look at your pension,” says an expert on ARD – and explains the “problem” of the debt brake. Finance Minister Christian Lindner is determined to stick to it, although there is a willingness to reform it from among his coalition partners, the SPD and the Greens of the concept would be there.
Economist Marcel Fratzscher: Politicians are currently failing to set the course sufficiently for the future. Until 2011, Germany “never had a debt brake in the sense in which we have it now”