BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government must do more to cut spending to get its deficit under control as the economy is weakening faster than earlier expected, the country’s panel of independent economic advisers said Wednesday.

Germany’s economy, the continent’s biggest, will grow by only 0.8 percent next year as Europe’s debt crisis weighs on its outlook, the experts predicted.

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