Germany's Friedrich Merz is ready for foreign policy challenges
The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...
Germany’s Merz wins vote to massively expand borrowing and super-charge military spending
The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...
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How to get the money for Europe’s defense
It’s well past time the bloc reconsidered hemorrhaging money on an unaffordable and ineffectual climate policy that no other ...
Germany’s leader-in-waiting takes unexpectedly tough line on Trump swerve
Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...
German parliament approves Merz's spending surge as allies cheer
Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...
German parliament’s upper house gives final approval to huge defense and borrowing package
The prospective next German government’s plans to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict debt rules and to set up ...
Germany’s parliament approves Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan
Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...
Germany’s likely next leader wins parliament’s backing for huge defense and infrastructure spending
Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...
German budget committee gives green light for 3 bln euros in Ukraine aid
Germany's budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, ...
Rearming Europe: Brussels grapples with prospect of new large-scale loan
Ahead of Friedrich Merz's arrival in power in Berlin, several leaders are pushing for Eurobonds to fund the continent's ...