Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz advocates reforming the constitutional 'debt brake' amidst financial pressures from the Ukraine war. The conservative opposition hints at reform possibilities. After a ...

The leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil, urges reform of the nation's debt brake, emphasizing the ...

The leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) sees a "good starting point" for reforming the nation's spending cap, ...

Germany needs to step up its role in defence if the U.S. is to focus less on Europe, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on ...

On November 6th long-bubbling rows in Germany’s three-party coalition finally boiled over, when Olaf Scholz, the Social ...

A Merz led government would be good news in our view – he is robustly centre-right (ex chair of Blackrock Germany, corporate ...

Glöckner, the founder and managing director of the think tank Dezernat Zukunft, discusses problems with Germany's debt brake ...

Tax relief, economic development, child benefit increases, the extension of the Deutschland-Ticket monthly public transport pass — those are just four of around 100 draft laws that have got stuck in ...

Germany must reform strict rules that limit borrowing in order to boost spending in key areas, otherwise Europe's top economy risks further stagnation, an influential group of experts said on ...

Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he could be open to reforming the debt brake, which limits the public deficit to 0.35% of ...

The decision follows a budget fight that prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz to fire his finance minister and announce a ...

Germany is set to hold fresh elections on February 23, eleven weeks after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing ...