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In an official paper from a government financial agency, I have encountered the following sentence:
"Stornoraten: es bleibt bei den bisherigen Annahmen."
Why is there bei in the sentence? Could the author have used "Stornoraten: es bleiben die bisherigen Annahmen." instead, and would it have the same meaning?
That's the phrasal verb bleiben bei+dative that has a slightly different meaning than a plain bleiben. Compare to stay with and to stay.
There's also a separable verb dabeibleiben — to stay with that with the same meaning that doesn't take a prepositional object bei+dative
Es bleibt bei den bisherigen Annahmen.
Es bleibt dabei.
Yes, the meaning is the same. The formulation with "bei" is a bit more formal and allows keeping the object in the same (dative) form as before.
Bleibt es bei der aktuellen Regelung? Ja, es bleibt bei der aktuellen Regelung.
Otherwise, a grammatical adjustment is required:
Ja, es bleibt die aktuelle Regelung.
or
Ja, es bleiben die aktuellen Regeln.
