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.

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

The parties in talks to form Germany's new government on Tuesday agreed to try to loosen fiscal rules for defence and federal states' spending, and to create a 500 billion euros ($529.95 billion) ...

Germany’s parliament on Friday approved ... The Bundesrat, or the upper house, which represents the country’s 16 federal states, passed the reforms with an overwhelming majority, exceeding ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz speaks to the media after he reached an agreement with the Greens on a massive ...

Once the Bundesrat, where Germany’s 16 federal states are represented, has approved the bill, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier can sign it and submit it for publication in the Federal Law Gazette.

Apart from the 100 billion euros from the infrastructure fund, each of Germany's 16 federal states will be allowed to run a small structural deficit of 0.35% of their economic output, as the federal ...

Apart from the 100 billion euros from the infrastructure fund, each of Germany's 16 federal states will be allowed to run a small structural deficit of 0.35% of their economic output, as the ...

The upper house is made up of representatives of Germany's 16 federal states, and several state leaders spoke in favor of the package before the vote. Boris Rhein, CDU leader of the central state ...

No country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with ...

The upper house is made up of representatives of Germany's 16 federal states, and several state leaders spoke in favour of the package before the vote. Boris Rhein, CDU leader of the central state ...