Why Germany’s debt rules are a bellwether for EU defence spending
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 and Austria, one EU official said, due to their relatively low debt burdens compared with the EU’s average.
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 ...
An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, though it ...
The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow for a step ...
The US and Europe battled in the UN and G7 over whether to blame Russia for its war against Ukraine, German election winner Friedrich Merz faces serious hurdles to boosting defence spending, and Apple ...
A fiscal mechanism known as the debt brake, which strictly limits government borrowing, has become a fault line in German politics with the last government’s collapse blamed on the issue.
A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...
However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...
A sense of urgency is rising as parties on the extreme right and left may be able to block defense spending when Germany’s ...
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