Article 6W0QY How every German MP voted on reforming the debt brake

How every German MP voted on reforming the debt brake

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Seán Clarke
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German MPs have voted to pass a motion to loosen the country's strict borrowing rules, altering the constitution. The measure had been proposed by Friedrich Merz, the presumptive incoming chancellor, in the outgoing Bundestag, or federal parliament

A motion put before the outgoing Bundestag to alter the German constitution to allow for greater investment and borrowing, in part to fund higher defence spending. The vote needs a two-thirds majority to pass.

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