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Muhamad Yehia Friedrich Merz needed the support of two-thirds majority in parliament for his plan to unlock billions for defence and infrastructure spending. Germany’s parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country’s constitutionally enshrined fiscal rules. …

Muhamad Yehia Sunday’s crunch vote is a first test for a recently reformed electoral law. Almost 60 million voters in Germany are called to the ballot boxes on Sunday to elect a new Bundestag, with Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) poised to emerge as the biggest bloc. Reviving Europe’s …