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Germany's top court throws out new claims against Merz's borrowing plans
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Posted on March 17, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 17, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Germany's court dismisses challenges to Merz's borrowing plans, enabling parliament to consider debt reform and a 500-billion-euro fund.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's constitutional court threw out new challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition government to push a massive public borrowing initiative through the outgoing parliament, it said on Monday.
The decision paves the way for parliament to convene on Tuesday to consider the proposals of conservative election winner Friedrich Merz to reform constitutional debt rules and set up a 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund.
(Reporting by Ursula Knapp; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Sarah Marsh)
The article discusses Germany's court decision on Friedrich Merz's borrowing plans and debt reform proposals.
Merz proposes reforming constitutional debt rules and establishing a 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund.
Opposition parties challenged the borrowing plans in Germany's constitutional court.
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