BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany cannot accurately forecast its 2020 refinancing volume due to high uncertainty related to the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the country’s finance agency said in a call on Monday.
The agency earlier announced plans to raise the debt issued in the third quarter to 146 billion euros ($164 billion) from an initially planned 56.5 billion euros to help finance the cost of government programmes tackling the impact of the pandemic.
(Reporting by Reinhard Becker; writing by Thomas Seythal; Editing by Catherine Evans)
