A favorable majority of Germany's 16 federal states has voted on an historic change to the country's debt borrowing rules, paving the way for billions of euros in defense and infrastructure spending.

BERLIN - Germany's Bundesrat upper house of parliament on Friday approved plans for a spending splurge that aims to revive ...

Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday gave the final seal of approval to a massive spending package to build up the ...

The armed forces are also a focus, with Merz and the Social Democrats committed to a massive military buildup after years of ...

The package, which will allow for a large increase in military expenditure, passed through the Bundesrat despite objections ...

Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, ...

The festival was boycotted by some due to suppression of free speech over Palestine while others tiptoed around political ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to subsidize German industry. Other European governments worry about unfair ...

As part of the deal over Germany's massive defence and infrastructure spending package, the Greens managed to write spending earmarks with a reference to climate neutrality into the country's ...

The prospective next German government’s plans to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict debt rules and to set up ...

And I am not making the case for stagnation. We don’t need to settle for broken systems; we just need to make sure we don’t ...