Germany’s ruling coalition still has a lot of work ahead amid difficult deliberations on the 2025 federal budget, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Saturday, as left-wing politicians criticized prospective cuts to social spending. “We have not yet reached the landing zone,” the minister told 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 …