The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

"The whole world is watching Germany these days. We have a task — in the European Union, and in the world — that goes far beyond the borders of our own country and the well-being of our own people." T ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

Newly elected Friedrich Merz has proposed nearly €1 trillion in new spending on defense and infrastructure for the sluggish ...

Worth hundreds of billions of euros, the so-called spending "bazooka" has been pushed by the likely next chancellor Friedrich ...

“It is a war against Europe and not just a war against the territorial integrity of Ukraine” – Merz ...

The hastily drawn plans represent a radical departure for a country traditionally reluctant to take on large amounts of debt ...

The package, which will allow for a large increase in military expenditure, passed through the Bundesrat despite objections ...

The lower house of the German Parliament voted to bankroll a massive militarization plan as a backstop against Russian ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because ...