The coalition still has a lot of work ahead of it in its difficult deliberations on the 2025 federal budget, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has said. “We have not yet reached the landing zone,” the minister told Saturday’s edition of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. It is “not just about a draft budget for next year … but also about a fundamental turnaround in [Germany’s] economy,” Lindner stressed. “Redistributing state money and subsidies do not create added value,” added Lindner, a fiscal conservative who holds to a tougher line than his coalition partners. In addition, …