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Official figures show the German government incurred £115.5billion (€130.5billion) worth of debt in 2020 – three times higher than the previous record. The shocking figures overseen by German Chancellor Angela Merkel are more than £70billion (€79billion) higher than the debt incurred in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.