EXCLUSIVE: Germany's plan to bypass its newly elected Bundestag to lift the Debt Brake has sparked outrage, with critics ...

Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Merz declares Germany is back as the country secures major defence and infrastructure funding ahead of a crucial ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor on Thursday urged outgoing members of parliament to exempt some defense spending from the ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced a deal to drastically overhaul the country’s debt rules to allow a boom in defence and security spending as well as 500 billion euros ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...

A senior Greens legislator said there would still be a sufficient, albeit different, majority to reform Germany's debt brake ...

Germany's incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, announced a landmark deal to revise debt rules, enabling increased defence ...

Germany's three major political parties have agreed on a reformed debt brake that exempts defence spending above 1% of GDP.