Overview
- Reports say the government’s debt-brake commission has stalled and no longer expects an agreement, with meetings now limited to small groups.
- A final session is slated for May, after which the panel would release only a non-binding list of ideas instead of a reform plan.
- The debt brake is a constitutional cap on structural deficits, and people involved cite deep splits over easing it as the reason talks broke down.
- The Finance Ministry says the commission is still working and calls the issues complex.
- The accounts come from Bild, echoed by WELT and AFP, and rely on unnamed participants rather than on-the-record confirmation.