'What more do you want?' Merz pleads with lawmakers on German debt plan
Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...
All eyes on Greenland as decisive election approaches
Greenland, the world's largest island, remains a self-governing territory of Denmark. Amid Trump's interest, Greenlanders ...
Why Merz Faces a Tough Path to Loosen Germany’s Fiscal Rules
Germany plans to amend its constitution in order to remove limits on raising debt for defense and set up a €500 billion ($541 ...
Portugal’s Government Is Set to Be Toppled in Confidence Vote
Portugal’s parliament is set to topple Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s center-right minority government in a confidence vote on Tuesday, likely leading to the country’s third early election in just ...
The Financial Times6d
Germany can spend almost €2tn without harming growth, economists say
“Germany has a large fiscal capacity,” said Marcello Messori, a professor at the European University Institute ... in place since 2009, should be eased. More than a quarter — or 29 per ...
Al Jazeera on MSN5d
Germany’s Green Party rejects Merz’s spending proposals
Germany’s Green Party has threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...
The Street Journal1d
East Germany’s first freely elected parliament
On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after elections to the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The CDU laid claim to the offices of prime ...
Opinion
Germany’s political upheaval and the transatlantic alliance’s uncertain future
Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...
Euronews2d
Germany's Friedrich Merz faces rocky road to lift debt brake rules
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 his multi-billion-euro ...
Reuters5d
Greenland's independence gradualists win election amid Trump control pledge
"We respect the election ... parliament was formed, but Copenhagen still controls foreign affairs, defence and monetary policy and provides just under $1 billion a year to the economy. In 2009 ...
Politico Europe6d
Greenland heads to the polls amid Trump’s threats to take over
Greenlanders will trudge across ice and snow Tuesday to cast their ballots in an election that could prove to be one of ... without specifying when that vote will be. Under a 2009 agreement with ...
AFP5d
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