Christian Linder is not a friend of debt. So, unsurprisingly, the German Finance Minister says the Commission’s plans for new debt rules are not strict enough. „Significant adjustments are still needed,“ Lindner judged on Wednesday. His French counterpart Bruno Le Maire sees it quite differently. „Some points contradict the spirit of the reform,“ he criticized. And in the European Parliament, too, opinions on the proposals differ widely, analyze Christof Roche and Till Hoppe.