Good planning enabled Germany to offer huge economic stimulus, Angela Merkel says

Berlin — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany needed to act “courageously and decisively” after her coalition government cobbled together a sweeping €130bn economic stimulus package. “Luckily in the good times we have acted in a way that enables us to do this now,” Merkel told German broadcaster ARD in an interview on Thursday, as she defended the government’s unprecedented spending spree to rescue Europe’s largest economy...