German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has defended decisions on next year’s budget taken by the ruling three-party coalition, in particular those regarding the Defence Ministry, in comments to Bild newspaper on Saturday. “The defence minister is getting more money than in the previous budget, but he is getting less money than what he called for in public,” Lindner, a member of the pro-business liberal FDP, told the mass-circulation tabloid. “This is the entirely normal budgetary process,” he said, pointing out that a minister worked passionately for his department and asked for the maximum…