Germany's outgoing parliament could still greenlight a new special fund to boost defence spending but reforming strict limits ...

An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, though it ...

The outcome of Germany’s election makes a coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD likely, allowing for a rapid coalition ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after ...

F RIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a ...

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

The market reaction to the German election outcome was relatively modest. 10y Bund yields tracked towards 2.5%, ...

The debt brake, or “Schuldenbremse”, caps the federal government’s new borrowing at 0.35 percent of Germany’s gross domestic ...