Press voice: 'Handelsblatt' on expectations of an SPD Finance Ministry

DÜSSELDORF (dpa-AFX) - "Handelsblatt" on expectations of an SPD Finance Ministry:

"The challenges facing Germany can never be met within the current corset of the debt brake. There will be a new special fund, perhaps also a reform of the debt brake. (.) It will be essential for the SPD to be the party that implements these major financial policy decisions in the Ministry of Finance. That it is the one that can sell a reform as its success after years of campaigning against the debt brake. That it ensures that this reform is a success. Because such a major financial reform offers the SPD the opportunity to make a double name for itself in the new coalition. As the party that finally provides the necessary investments in infrastructure and defense. But at the same time prevents a drift into a new debt-ridden state. In other words, an SPD that shows that it can handle money."/yyzz/DP/nas