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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s decision to hike defence spending with debt-financed 100 billion euros ($112.7 billion) this year could double its overall 2022 net new borrowing target to more than 200 billion euros, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. After two years of record net new borrowing and unprecedented state spending to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens and companies in Europe’s largest economy, Germany was aiming to limit new borrowing close to 100 billion euros this year. But following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s …