Germany is considering exempting funds for a planned raw-materials fund from the country’s debt restrictions, a move that could provide additional financial leeway to diversify critical supplies more ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

The German Bundestag just made a historic decision today. A decision that will finally break Germany’s debt brake. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Friedrich Merz, left, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the Social Democratic ...

Friedrich Merz, center, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader and CDU federal chairman, rings the bell before the start of the parliamentary group meeting between Alexander Dobrindt, left, CSU regional ...

Germany's public debt increased by almost a fifth between the first quarter of 2021 and the third quarter of 2025, reaching a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German debt is expected to increase to 80.25% of gross domestic product by 2029 from 62.5% last year due to a rise in defence and infrastructure spending, according to the country's ...

Desmond Lachman took part in an International Economy Symposium of Views. In these troubled economic times, the one thing to be optimistic about is Germany’s recent decision to lift its debt brake. In ...

A bund is a debt instrument from Germany's federal government, similar to U.S. Treasury bonds and providing a stable source of funding and collateral for credit operations.

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FRANKFURT, Germany — The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to loosen the country’s constitution restrictions on borrowing, enabling 1 trillion euros ($1.08 ...