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Alex Kozul-Wright

Debt brake: How this fiscal rule could shape Germany’s election

Long considered a manufacturing powerhouse, Germany has struggled to fend off growing competition from China [File: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters]

As Germans prepare to vote on Sunday, their country’s sluggish economic growth will be top of their minds along with immigration and the Ukraine war.

A fiscal mechanism known as the debt brake, which strictly limits government borrowing, has become a fault line in German politics with the last government’s collapse blamed on the issue.

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