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Austria’s Incipient Reversion to Authoritarianism
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straightjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of ...
Business Times16d
Europe: German stocks lead gains after Merz secures support for historic debt reform
Small-caps climbed 3.3 per cent. Conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in state borrowing, clearing the way for ...
France 2418d
Germany's Merz urges MPs to back spending bonanza in fiery debate
Berlin (AFP) – Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced military and ailing economy, as he defended plans for a ...
Foreign Policy20d
Germany Is Rethinking Everything Nuclear
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Politico Europe20d
Germany’s Greens make Merz sweat over massive spending plan
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz's historic spending plan for Germany hinges on the cooperation of a party many of his conservatives have often derided. It's the Greens — the defeated, center-left party that ...
Investing21d
Germany’s Greens may torpedo Merz’s spending bonanza but hint at deal
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing to revamp the military and revive growth but forwarded ...
Politico Europe21d
Germany’s Greens vow to quash Merz’s spending revolution
BERLIN — Germany’s Greens are vowing to put an end to Friedrich Merz’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in defense and infrastructure. Greens leaders on Monday said they would urge lawmakers ...
Associated Press21d
Germany’s prospective new government struggles to win support for defense, infrastructure plans
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. From left, Markus Soeder, (CSU), Minister President of Bavaria and CSU Chairman, Friedrich Merz, Union ...
Yahoo21d
Why Germany's Merz could take 'more rational' approach to China
A future German coalition government could take a "more rational" approach to China policy, a former Chinese envoy to Germany says, pointing to likely chancellor Friedrich Merz's focus on the ...
Bloomberg L.P.21d
Germany’s Debt Brake Surprise Is a Game Changer
Suddenly, Germany’s probable new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has done what seemed impossible. Together with his fellow centrist leaders, he has unveiled a plan to override a long-running ...
Al Jazeera English21d
Germany’s Green Party rejects Merz’s spending proposals
Merz, whose conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged the biggest in February’s legislative elections, wants in particular to relax the strict limits imposed by the “debt brake ...