Ecofin: Lindner’s late interventio • Table.Briefings

After Transport Minister Wissing, now Finance Minister Lindner: Once again, an FDP cabinet member is causing trouble at EU level with late amendments. With his demands on the Stability Pact, Lindner partly got his way. But this has come at a price.

The meeting of EU finance ministers actually promised to be an unagitated discussion, after all, the member states had already agreed on the joint declaration on the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact in advance. However, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner ensured that things turned out differently: In Brussels, the head of the FDP called for changes to the text, thereby antagonizing a number of colleagues.

Ecofin: Lindner’s late intervention causes frustration

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