By Andreas Rinke and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform ...

Germany could approve a fund to boost defence spending before the outgoing parliament steps down next month, while leaving ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's outgoing parliament could still greenlight a new special fund to boost defence spending but ...

Omid Nouripour, a member of the Bundestag for the Alliance 90/The Greens, discusses the German election outcome and ...

The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

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

Reports that the three German centrist parties are trying to lift the country's debt brake -- before the new parliament goes into effect -- has changed Deutsche Bank's view on the euro, as their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since interest rates have risen, central banks around the world have faced losses stemming from the high interest they pay on ...

Friedrich Merz, the election winner in Germany, ruled out speedy reforms to the country's 'debt brake', which restricts state borrowing. He cautioned against immediate action due to Germany's ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...