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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

After being against a reform of Germany's controversial 'debt brake', which limits government borrowing, for years, ...

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 ...