Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries said oil prices and Germany's aging population of savers limit the government's ability to narrow the current account surplus, which was the largest in the world last year.
(Reporting by Gernot Heller; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Paul Carrel)Germany defends large current account surplus
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