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The leaders of Germany’s coalition government have agreed to a new compromise on the 2025 budget, a government spokesman said in Berlin on Friday. The new agreement – one month after Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his coalition partners reached a preliminary deal in early July – primarily involves the reallocation of funds for the state-owned Deutsche Bahn railway company. This will reduce the planned 2025 deficit in government expenditure by €4.5 billion ($4.95 billion) to €12 billion. Scholz’s coalition hopes to make up the deficit by stimulating economic growth, thereby raising government reven…

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