Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz faces legal challenges as he seeks to pass a 500 billion euro infrastructure ...

German politics has delivered yet another masterclass in how to betray your voters while maintaining a straight face. This ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

The country's likely next conservative CDU chancellor Friedrich Merz said cost-cutting must be discussed during coalition talks with the center-left Social Democrats. It comes after he backed a ...

The selloff in Germany’s bonds spilled over to a second week as Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz won crucial political backing ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

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