To get to 2% of GDP by 2024, Germany would have to double its defense spending in real terms to about €70 billion in the space of just seven years (see the chart here). In 2017, the government ...

Germanys consumer confidence is expected to improve slightly heading into June, according to the latest GfK and Nuremberg ...

Global bond markets are selling off after the German government's new spending plan sparked a rise in yields. Germany's 500 billion euro infrastructure plan and defense spending are shifting the ...

VISITORS to Germany ... spending on security, development aid and, most seriously, pensions have spilled into the open. Some observers think the budget rows could even precipitate a government ...

FRANKFURT, Germany ... next German government have agreed to loosen the country's constitution restrictions on borrowing, enabling 1 trillion euros ($1.08 trillion) or more in spending on defense ...

Germany’s plan to create a €500 billion ($534 billion) infrastructure fund puts energy grids on track for a massive spending boost after years of underinvestment, part of a broader effort to ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to allow for higher defense spending, an issue of growing ...

Germany recorded ... Increased public spending on refugees also boosted the domestic economy, said the statistical office. About 1.1m asylum seekers arrived last year and the government is ...

BERLIN — The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to allow for higher defense spending, an issue of ...