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German finance minister doesn’t rule out emergency borrowing as ‘Trump’s irresponsible war’ bites

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Germany will borrow like never before over the next four years — and may have to raise yet more money to cope with the strains of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “irresponsible war” in Iran, center-left Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Wednesday.



“We will need to continue to monitor closely how this war affects our economic development and the overall state of our country,” Klingbeil said in Berlin in response to a question about whether Germany’s centrist coalition government i

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