Germany's conservative opposition leader and possible next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Wednesday rejected a reform of the ...

Fiscal and economic policy differences have been blamed for the German government collapsing, but what role did the country’s ...

“Germany cannot waste any more time. The reform of the debt brake and the start of a major investment programme needs to come ...

Angela Merkel, whose successive governments demanded deep austerity from neighbours in the euro zone debt crisis, said the ...

Horrible endings are better than never-ending horrors, or so the German saying goes. Many in Germany probably felt that way ...

New German finance minister Joerg Kukies said on Friday that a moderate and targeted reform of the debt brake, which limits ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he could be ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in favour of reforming Germany's constitutional limit on government ...

Germany's ex-finance minister Christian Lindner, the leader of the pro-business liberal Free Democrats (FDP), sought to ...

The debt brake, a fiscal rule that limits how much debt the government can take on, and dictates the maximum size of the federal government's structural budget deficit, was a contentious issue in ...