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

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

“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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...