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Handelsblatt: Germany supported the idea that EU financial help should be conditional on domestic reforms. The EU considers that Germany hasn't reformed enough to qualify for financial help. app.handelsblatt.com/politik/intern…

"Germany lacks precisely the zeal for reform that it always demands from other EU states, the EU complains"

"Government representatives in Berlin have an allergic reaction to Brussels' demands. It is problematic that the Commission is making such demands in a super election year with important state elections in March and federal elections in September"

By the way, the EU has also been quite critical on the lack of reforms in some areas in the Netherlands too, especially how "debt-financed home ownership continues to be heavily subsidised"
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…