BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new Social Democrat finance minister, Olaf Scholz, is frustrating both key ally France and his own struggling centre-left party by adopting the same fiscal rigour as his conservative predecessor, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
During his first two months as treasury chief of Europe's largest economy, Scholz has committed to a continued goal of no new debt and limited public spending.
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