here's part of what olof scholtz said today during the budget debate in the build this talk minus the in my view it is essential that with a solid financial basis that we now have we can react with many many billions of euros if that's the recession in germany or europe and we will do it then the bad news often. are for more on this i'm joined now by our political correspondent. and here at the big table with me chris from d.w. business to both of you welcome to start with you so says that germany can spend its way out of a possible recession or economic crisis why not use that money now when it invests to prevent the crisis. well that's a lot to do with germany's famous or infamous black 0 policy what that means is the you said it is now the self-imposed goal of keeping the federal budget balanced and it has become what the main pillar off germany's fiscal policy under a chance i'm going to america and her finance ministers are going to always argue that it's important how and important is not to burden future generations with debt especially looking at germany's rapidly aging societ

says that he is prepared to spend billions of euros if a future economic crisis hits but minister olof scholtz also says that he will stick to germany's strict no new debt policy even if there is a recession german parliamentarians are debating a budget for the year 2020 says he can manage maintain a balanced budget despite an economy that is showing signs of flagging maybe even recession is proposal puts an emphasis on labor and social issues as well as relief for low income families. here is part of what a loft schultz said today during the budget debate in the buddhist minus the in my view it is essential that with a solid financial basis that we now have we can react with many many billions of euros if that's the recession in germany or europe and we will do it then via bad news often are for more on this i'm joined now by our political correspondent leigh only from homer stein she is here in berlin and here the big table with me is kris kobach from d.w. business leone let me start with you says that germany can spend its way out of a possible economic crisis maybe even in a recession but