Friedrich Merz ugly political maneuver; Debt brake
Friedrich Merz is mulling using the outgoing parliament to approve €200 billion ($210 billion) of new borrowing to beef up the military.
Merz shares the blame for having to consider such an ugly political maneuver, yet it might be the least-bad option to rebuild the country’s threadbare armed forces.
His sudden embrace of massive borrowing looks opportunistic and anti-democratic.
Long an ardent trans-Atlanticist, Merz now says Europe must become “independent” from the US and that “the fate of Europe matters very little to certain Americans,”
And it’s a reminder that Germany’s constitutionally enshrined so-called debt-brake is long past its sell-by date.
Chris Bryant Bloomberg 27 februari 2025
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