The controversial legislation pushed by conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was approved Tuesday in the lower ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU and their likely future coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), plan to exempt defence spending from ...

The multibillion-euro package loosens borrowing limits and allows new investments in defense, infrastructure and climate. The ...

Friedrich Merz needed the support of two-thirds majority in parliament for his plan to unlock billions for defence and infrastructure spending. #EuropeNews ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz's fiscal package containing massive spending increases for defence and infrastructure received the Bundestag's approval on Tuesday, setting in motion a ...

Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) approved a constitutional reform on Tuesday that will allow a historic increase in ...

Lawmakers challenge Germany's plan for increased state borrowing, with complaints filed to the constitutional court by ...

Incoming Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, pressed lawmakers Tuesday to approve a massive defense and infrastructure spending package, citing ...

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We are currently experiencing a time of widespread and dangerous division. Donald Trump is dividing the US, the US government is dividing the democratic West, the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The “debt brake,” enshrined in Germany’s constitution, limits federal borrowing to just 0.35% of the country’s GDP. Under ...