German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said strict limits on government borrowing in German law cannot be allowed to curtail necessary spending on defence and military preparedness. Pistorius told dpa during a visit to New York on Wednesday that military spending, as well as some emergency response funding, should be excluded from the so-called debt brake rules that are written into Germany’s constitution. The controversial debt brake rules, which were added to the German constitution in 2009, only allow the government to rely on borrowing for deficit spending under certain conditions. Pistor…