Christian Lindner, former German finance minister, has suggested that the European Central <a target=_blank href= ...

Seven weeks before the Bundestag elections, leading politicians in the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) say they want ...

BERLIN - Earlier this month, Germany's constitutional court ruled that the government's plan to redirect unused COVID-19 aid funds toward combating climate change violated the so-called debt brake.

Germany’s politicians have a short list of New Year’s resolutions: to make considerable improvement across the board. As the ...

The debt brake limits Germany's structural budget deficit to 0.35 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in normal times. It helped establish Germany as an economic anchor during the EU debt crisis ...

Lisandro Claudio, University of California, Berkeley; Garret Martin, American University School of International Service; Jorge Heine, Boston University; Patrick James, USC Dornsife College of Letters ...