Merkel, Germany and Debt Brake

New German finance minister says must be 'realistic' about debt brake reform, report says
New German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies dampened expectations that a reform of the nation's spending cap, known as the debt brake, could lead to more leeway in the federal budget in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper published on Friday.
Germany’s Merkel Voices Support for Reform of Debt Brake Policy
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavaria’s prime minister, Markus Soeder, said they’re open to reforming the country’s strict borrowing limits, signaling a departure from the traditional stance of the conservative Christian Democrats,
Germany's Merkel backs reforming controversial debt limit
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in favour of reforming Germany's constitutional limit on government spending, the so-called debt brake, which is being hotly debated ahead of early elections next year.
Relax Germany’s debt brake, says Angela Merkel
Former chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Germany to relax its “debt brake”, in a sign of the growing political pressure to overhaul a borrowing cap that many economists say is too inflexible.
Drop the debt brake, says Merkel, once Europe's fiscal scourge
Angela Merkel, whose successive governments demanded deep austerity from neighbours in the euro zone debt crisis, said the world now faced graver times that demanded an easing of Germany's totemic spending cap.
Germany's 'debt brake' rule helped collapse its government — and it could be about to change
Fiscal and economic policy differences have been blamed for the German government collapsing, but what role did the country's ...
German bond investors bet on an end to Berlin’s ‘debt brake’
Scholz, a social democrat, demanded his finance minister Christian Lindner, leader of the fiscally hawkish FDP party, suspend ...