French borrowing costs drew level with Greece’s for the first time on record this week, showing the extent of market concerns ...

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

The incoming coalition in Thuringia, which includes the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), has agreed on a drastic austerity programme that goes hand in hand with a massive beefing up of the state’s ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck wants to change the European Union's laboriously negotiated debt rules, calling them "a security risk" because they are preventing much-needed spending on defence ...

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

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

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

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

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

The debt brake has become bound up with Germany’s ... the next five to 10 years” under a plan he has dubbed “Make the German Economy Great Again”. That would amount to in the region ...

Lars Klingbeil, the head of Germany's main governing Social Democratic Party (SPD), has highlighted a promising opportunity to reform the nation's debt brake, a constitutional ... wake of the recent ...