Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way alliance has agreed on Germany’s budget for 2024, following a month of tense negotiations after a court ruling threw its finances into disarray, three government sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The breakthrough could help ease tensions in Scholz’s fractious coalition of his Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) that have intensified over the budget crunch, as support slump to new record lows.
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