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Finland’s Right-Wing Coalition plans Fifty Years of Austerity through National Debt Brake

Finland’s four-party right-wing coalition, led by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, has proposed adopting a national debt brake that would cap public debt at 40 percent of GDP. From 2031 onwards, the debt-to-GDP ratio would need to fall by at least one percentage point annually until reaching this ceiling. [...]