The German parliament will not have time to vote on the country’s 2024 budget before the end of the year, a senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) wrote in an SMS message seen by dpa on Thursday. Scholz’s three-party coalition has been under huge pressure to resolve the country’s budget crisis, which followed a landmark court decision that struck down some of the government’s spending plans. “Although we have done as much as we can from our side, the budget for the year 2024 can no longer be finalized this year in a timely manner,” wrote Katja Mast, a senior SPD l…