BERLIN (Reuters) – Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told lawmakers on Wednesday that Germany would have “all the strength” to counter the impact of the coronavirus if the epidemic plunged the world economy into a crisis, two participants told Reuters.
The federal government’s fiscal measures would be “timely, targeted, temporary” in the case of an economic crisis, Scholz said in a closed-door meeting of parliament’s finance committee, participants said.
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