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

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

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavaria’s prime minister, Markus Soeder, said they’re open to reforming the ...

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

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

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

Jörg Kukies, German finance minister, discusses the country's debt brake policy and plans for Germany's 2025 budget in a ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in favor of changing the rules of Germany's constitutional limit on ...

Former chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Germany to relax its “debt brake”, in a sign of the growing political pressure to overhaul a borrowing cap that many economists say is too inflexible.

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

Scholz, a social democrat, demanded his finance minister Christian Lindner, leader of the fiscally hawkish FDP party, suspend the debt brake to allow for more aid to Ukraine. Lindner refused, so ...

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 ...