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

The premiers of Germany's 16 federal states meeting in the eastern city of Leipzig on Friday agreed a joint statement on migration which describes the number of people seeking asylum to be "still ...

The debt reform plan exempts defense spending from Germany's so-called "debt brake," a constitutionally enshrined mechanism that limits government borrowing. Expenditures on defense, cybersecurity, ...

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

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 ...

In Germany, the federal government and the 16 states are obliged to balance their books and are practically prohibited from taking out extra loans. No other G7 country has such strict limits on ...