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

Approval from Germany's 16 federal states is the final hurdle in passing a historic change to the country's debt borrowing rules into law.

Germany's Bundesrat on Friday gave the final seal of approval to a massive spending package aimed at beefing up the country's ...

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 ...

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

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

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for forming a government amid a fragmented political landscape.

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

The German parliament has voted in favour of a huge fiscal package and changes to the debt brake. Click to read.

The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...