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

New German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies dampened expectations that a reform of the nation's spending cap, known as the debt ...

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

A dispute over spending had led to the collapse of Germany's government earlier this month, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

It appears German politics is acquiring a new bitterness. And while everyone is busy accusing everyone else of letting the ...

Scholz’s appeal for unity may have appeared incongruous with his decision just a week earlier to dismiss Finance Minister ...

Friedrich Merz, the man tipped to head Germany’s next government, appears to have grasped the logic and drawn the ...

The circumstances surrounding the breakdown of Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition portend sweeping political and economic ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has long been sharply critical of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government. Now, though, Merz appears to ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have yet to publicly name their candidate for chancellor following a Tuesday evening ...