Round 4: Tossup 10

Description acceptable. Rules for this policy were amended in 2021 to allow its circumvention through “off-budget funds.” Farmers blocked roads in January 2024 after a constitutional court ruled that a transfer to the Climate and Transformation Fund violated this policy. The party that introduced this policy campaigned on its success as the “black (15[1])zero.” This policy has been mandated constitutionally since 2009 as a (*) “brake” in the Basic Law. The proposal for an infrastructure fund that circumvented this policy led Christian Lindner to withdraw the FDP from the governing “traffic light” coalition. In 2025, Friedrich Merz and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz secured an exemption from this policy to strengthen (10[1])defense. For 10 points, what policy limits spending by the largest economy in the (10[1])Eurozone? (10[2]0[1])■END■

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