Factbox: 'Debt brake', 'black zero': Germany's fiscal rules under scrutiny
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has come under pressure to abandon its balanced budget goal and finance more fiscal stimulus with new debt. With Europe's largest economy on the brink of recession and Berlin's borrowing costs at record lows, some have even put the more formal debt brake rule into question.Below are some facts about Germany's self-imposed balanced budget goal and the constitutionally enshrined debt brake.BALANCED BUDGETChancellor Angela Merkel's government has managed to..