Paris and Berlin are expected to come under renewed pressure from Brussels today after they officially report new breaches in the rules underpinning the euro.
According to reports in the German media, Berlin will today inform the European Commission that its budget deficit will be 3.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year and its debt will be 65 percent of GDP.
If confirmed, this would represent the third year in a row that Germany - the EU's largest economy - has br...
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