Still, borrowing of the planned scale would have a significant impact. Moody's, a rating agency, estimates that Germany's deficit would widen by up to 2.5% of GDP (still below the EU average). The ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD are planning a special infrastructure fund of 500 billion euros. The German IT and digital sector also ...

"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...

Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

Germany's far-right AfD party is considering legal action against the conservative and centre-left SPD coalition proposal for increased spending on defense and infrastructure. Senior lawmaker Bernd ...

Germany's government-in-waiting unveiled a plan to boost defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of ...

The parties hoping to form Germany’s next government have agreed to overhaul borrowing rules and create a €500 billion ($536 billion) infrastructure fund in a tectonic spending shift to revamp the ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up ...

One might have expected the Morning Star to welcome the revival of Die Linke, but in fact the paper has been strangely ...

Overall, the political shifts in Germany reflect a desire for change in a country that hasn’t been this politically engaged ...