Why Germany’s debt rules are a bellwether for EU defence spending
These safeguards — keeping annual deficits below 1.5 per cent in the long term, and reducing excess debt by at least half a percentage point per year — “bite more” for the likes of Germany, Finland and Austria, one EU official said, due to their relatively low debt burdens compared with the EU’s average.
A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...
Laura Pitel Well, the first thing to say is that Merz’s CDU has always been very fiscally hawkish, and their manifesto says that they are opposed to changing the debt brake in any way. That has ...
Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...
An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...
A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...
Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...
The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.
Germany has the world's third-largest economy, but is struggling to kickstart growth. It's one of the issues facing voters in ...
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