"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany's new government. They are set to reform borrowing limits to allow for ...

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

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

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

By Satyaki Chakraborty The polarization in German politics widened after national elections on Sunday, February 23 in which ...

Merz, a longtime Atlanticist who had previously baulked at financing public spending through large-scale debt, has quickly ...

Germany's business lobbies on Wednesday praised plans to relax fiscal rules for defence spending and introduce a 500 ...

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

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social ...

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 SPD-led traffic light coalition with the Greens and FDP pushed the Cannabis Act through in April 2024. The law, which decriminalised cannabis, followed similar moves in Portugal, the Netherlands, ...

Germany’s recent election must be understood in the context of broader geopolitical changes. For the first time in Germany’s ...