Germany's proposed defence and infrastructure bonanza: how and why?

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz announced plans on Tuesday to spend hundreds of billions on Germany's infrastructure and defence, as well as to reform the country's "debt brake". Introduced in 2009 after the financial crash, the brake limits government borrowing to 0.35 percent of GDP in an effort to...

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