Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is wrangling with his future coalition partners and his own party over Germany’s strict borrowing rules, as he seeks to rush through a multibillion-Euro top-up to the defence budget before new MPs take their seats.
The discussions are likely to play a central role in exploratory coalition talks starting on Friday, as Merz seeks approval from the centre-left SPD to use the outgoing Bundestag to vote through the constitutional change required to boost…
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