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Germany’s Top Court Rejects Attempts to Stop Debt-Brake Vote
Germany’s top court rejected emergency bids to prevent the nation’s outgoing parliament from racing ahead with changes to the constitution to remove limits on defense borrowing and set up a €500 billion ($544 billion) infrastructure fund.
Top German court rejects bid to scrap vote on infrastructure package
In one of its very last legislative acts, the outgoing German parliament will probably be able to vote on a massive infrastructure and defence package next week, following a top court ruling. The Federal Constitutional Court on Friday rejected several urgent applications against the planned special sessions of the outoing Bundestag,
German court rejects a vote recount demanded by populist BSW party
Germany's Constitutional Court has declined to order a recount of the country's parliamentary election last month in which the upstart populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) party fell short of gaining seats in the Bundestag.
German Top Court Rebuffs BSW Bid for Recount of Election Votes
Germany’s top court rejected a suit brought by the populist left-wing party BSW seeking a recount of the votes cast in last month’s national election.
Germany's Top Court Dismisses BSW Party Election Result Challenge
Germany's constitutional court on Thursday dismissed a complaint by the leftist Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance seeking to legally challenge the results of the national election due to alleged counting errors.
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Lawmakers file new injunctions against €500bn German spending package
Several German members of parliament are launching a further attempt at the Federal Constitutional Court to prevent a vote planned for Tuesday on a multibillion-euro financial package for defence, ...
Germany faces cuts along with financial package, Merz says
The country's likely next conservative CDU chancellor Friedrich Merz said cost-cutting must be discussed during coalition talks with the center-left Social Democrats. It comes after he backed a ...
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Germany's Constitutional Court Clears Path for Massive Spending Plans
Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...
Wagenknecht goes to court
A good two weeks after the elections in Germany, the final result has now been determined and should be officially announced ...
Germany's likely new government makes a risky gambit
The CDU/CSU and SPD want to raise hundreds of billions of euros in debt. They are set to push the proposal through the outgoing Bundestag in special sessions. That is legal, but is it legitimate?
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RSF and GFF file complaint against Germany and its Federal intelligence Service Act at the European Court of Human Rights
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) - The Society of Civil Rights -  have filed a ...
Germany to ease government debt limits in major step aimed at boosting economy, defense spending
The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...
Merz is chiseling economic decline into the German constitution
Friedrich Merz, who once presented himself as the last line of defence against debt madness, is now set to push Germany’s new ...