Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform to Germany's state borrowing limits known as the "debt ...

An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, though it ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after ...

The outcome of Germany’s election makes a coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD likely, allowing for a rapid coalition ...

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

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, ...

Germany has the world's third-largest economy, but is struggling to kickstart growth. It's one of the issues facing voters in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The debt brake, or “Schuldenbremse”, caps the federal government’s new borrowing at 0.35 percent of Germany’s gross domestic ...

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 ...