European finance ministers on Wednesday afternoon (20 December) reached a provisional agreement on the bloc's spending and debt rules.
"We will 100 percent reach a deal," said French finance minister Bruno Le Maire on social media after he tried to iron out the last disagreements with his colleague from Germany — with whom he has been at odds for most of 2023.
According to German finance minister Christian Lindner, the two had made headway on minimum safeguards to ensure annual ...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.