Politico Europe4d
Germany moves to overhaul debt rules to unleash major defense spending
In view of Trump’s stance on Europe and Ukraine, the chancellor-in-waiting announced a historic plan to boost defense and the ...
Germany's Merz in race over debt brake reform to raise defence spending
The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...
Germany's defense and government spending boost triggered a global bond sell-off
On Wednesday, 10-year German bonds saw the worst day since March 1990 — just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
‘Germany is back’: Coalition unveils bumper $1.3 trillion spending pledge as country breaks with constitution to revive economy
Germany's coalition agreed a landmark deal to exempt defense spending from its harsh debt brakes, in addition to unveiling a ...
Germany's CDU, SPD agree on major financial package
Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to boost defense spending, freed from the "debt brake." ...
Bloomberg L.P.13d
Germany Discussing €200 Billion for Emergency Defense Fund
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has opened talks with the Social Democrats to quickly approve as much as €200 billion ($210 billion) in special defense spending, according to a ...
The biggest takeaways from Germany’s election, which will bring change to the EU’s leading power
Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
The Economist4d
Can Europe keep Ukraine in the fight if America really has bailed?
Although it has given Ukraine €132bn in military and financial aid (more than America’s €114bn), Europe’s big countries could ...