Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

After long negotiations between the CDU/CSU, SPD and the Greens, a deal appears to have been reached to secure a two-thirds majority for the announced fiscal package at the official vote in the German ...

Euro zone bond yields climbed as Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz struck a deal with the Greens and Social ...

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...

The deal follows several days of often acrimonious debate during which the Greens had threatened to withhold their ...

The future Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, confirmed on Friday that the CDU/CSU Christian Democratic parties and the ...

Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...

The deal marks a significant shift from decades of fiscal restraint in Berlin, aiming to boost defense spending amid growing ...

Even before Friday's news, economists in the March 10-14 Reuters poll broke a long spell of downgrades to 2025 euro zone ...

The agreement reached with the Greens would allow Germany to spend up to €1 trillion on defence and infrastructure over the ...

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German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.