Will Friedrich Merz get Germany to abandon its fiscal fetish?
The Schuldenbremse was enshrined in the German constitution in 2009 by then chancellor Angela Merkel — a CDU politician — in a bid to force responsible borrowing after government debt jumped from 63 per cent of GDP to 81 per cent after the global financial crisis.
Born in 1955 in the west German town of Brilon, Merz studied law and was first elected to the Bundestag in 1994. After ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's conservative opposition leader and possible next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Wednesday ...
Angela Merkel, whose successive governments demanded deep austerity from neighbours in the euro zone debt crisis, said the ...
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Germany's Merkel backs reforming controversial debt limitFormer German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in favour of reforming Germany's constitutional limit on government ...
Friedrich Merz has long been a beacon of hope for the conservative Christian Democrats. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over as Germany's leader. At the age of 69.
Germany's ruling Social Democrats officially made Chancellor Olaf Scholz their lead candidate on Monday for February's ...
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire former corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an ...
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who’s dominating polls ahead of an expected snap election, said he would look to ink deals with incoming US President Donald Trump to boost his country ...
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