Germany's next finance minister, 'bridge-builder' Lars Klingbeil

Germany's incoming finance minister, Lars Klingbeil, is a self-styled political "bridge-builder" whose calm and personable demeanour belies his sharp political instincts. Klingbeil, who studied political science, sociology, and history, not finance, will wield a spending "bazooka" worth hundreds of billions of euros to rebuild Germany's military and infrastructure, agreed by the outgoing parliament.

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