Time is running out for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government to agree on a spending plan for 2024 and secure required parliamentary approval by year's end.
German leaders are now struggling with the immediate task of how to plug an estimated â¬17 billion gap in the 2024 budget. However, the three parties in Germany's ruling coalition - the Greens, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the fiscally conservative Free Democratic Party (FDP) - have sharply divergent political priorities.
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