BERLIN, April 14 (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner is planning an austerity kit with a extent of up to 20 billion euros ($22.12 billion), Germany's Der Spiegel stated on Friday.
With the cuts, Lindner wants to close the funding gaps within the 2024 budget and on the same time create some leeway for unavoidable extra spending, Spiegel mentioned, citing sources within the ministry.
The ministry refused to comment on the report.
"The minister's place is standard. He has mentioned that revenues aren't enough to finance all of the calls for," a ministry spokesperson referred to. "The task is to slow down increase in spending," the spokesperson added.
in keeping with the report, Lindner's officials are recommending that he circulate a price range complement act, to make changes to legally described government functions. The document mentioned charge-reducing measures would specially affect the departments with the highest social spending, such because the labour and household ministries.
($1 = 0.9043 euros)
Reporting through Maria Martinez and Holger Hansen editing through Miranda Murray
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