The likely next chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, announced on Friday, March 14, that he had secured enough votes to ...

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

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

On the eve of the Bundestag approved the budget changes proposed by the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz to increase spending ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

Yesterday, the German parliament approved a historic amount of debt-funded investment in defence and infrastructure. Over the next few years, Germany may spend up to €1 trillion (£841 billion) on ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz's fiscal package containing massive spending increases for defence and ...

The sudden shift in German policy toward Ukraine reflects the radically changing situation in the ongoing war.

Germany's chancellor-to-be has won approval for plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defence ...

On Tuesday, 18 March 2025, Germany’s lower house emphatically through constitutional changes, allowing billions in borrowing ...