The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

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

Yesterday, the German parliament approved a historic amount of debt-funded investment in defence and infrastructure. Over the ...

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

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put “whatever it takes” into defense and to authorize an enormous fund for investment in its creaking in ...

The vote to unleash borrowing for the military and Ukraine is a “first major step towards a new European defense community,” ...

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

The aid package for the embattled country had been held up for months due to resistance from outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Germany is pushing ahead with easing its famously tight fiscal policies. In a major vote, the Bundestag agreed to boost ...

Germany's second chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat, might throw a wrench in Friedrich Merz's debt brake reform. The chamber representing Germany's 16 states must approve all laws that affect states ...