Germany's hastily agreed coalition pact to overcome a legal setback to its budget plans is based mainly on spending cuts that will drag further on already insipid growth in Europe's largest economy, economists said. As sought by Finance Minister Christian Lindner, an advocate of budgetary rigour, Germany will reinstate its cap on new net borrowing in 2024 and fill funding gaps worth a total 17 billion euros ($18 billion) largely with cost savings. With the restrictive monetary policy being pursued by the European Central Bank to tame inflation, and with lingering uncertainty over t...