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German Finance Minister Proposes Rival Economy Plan, According to Reuters

Germany's finance minister is pushing for tax cuts and fiscal discipline in a position paper.

Germany's finance minister is pushing for tax cuts and fiscal discipline in a position paper seen by Reuters on Friday that challenges an investment plan by the economy minister, laying bare a deep divide in the governing coalition.

Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP), the free-market kingmaker in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, calls for “an economic turnaround with a partly fundamental revision of key political decisions” in an 18-page policy paper from the finance ministry. Public rowing over economic and industrial policy between the FDP, Greens and Scholz's Social Democrats has fuelled speculation of the coalition's potential collapse, a year before elections are due.

The finance ministry document comes over a week after Economy Minister Robert Habeck, seen as the Greens' likely future candidate for chancellor, put forward his own multi-billion-euro investment plan to remedy weak growth in Europe's largest economy.

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