German Bundestag approves 140 bln euros extra debt in 2022
BERLIN, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The budget committee of German Bundestag (lower house of Parliament) on Friday adopted the country's annual budget for 2022, allowing total spending of 496 billion euros (523.5 billion U.S. dollars) and about 140 billion euros in new debt.
The new debt includes a supplementary budget of around 40 billion euros that was submitted at the end of April for "measures directly related to the