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Germany’s Friedrich Merz faces rocky road to lift debt brake rules

Muhamad Yehia Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany’s strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way. Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to …

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