{"id":250798,"date":"2025-07-09T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250798\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:59:13","slug":"germanys-merz-sees-decisions-on-debt-brake-reform-by-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250798\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz sees decisions on debt brake reform by spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects his government to take decisions on a possible reform of Germany&#8217;s strict debt rules by the spring of next year, he said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Merz told the Bundestag lower house of parliament that his conservatives had agreed with his Social Democrat coalition partners that a commission on the subject would be staffed after the summer parliamentary recess which ends in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The timeline foresees that we will have initial results around the turn of the year and that we will come to decisions by the spring of next year,&#8221; Merz told lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">He added that the reform discussions would take account of a Constitutional Court ruling in 2023, which had enshrined the strict principle of annual budgeting and forced German governments to rethink the way they organised their finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Any reform of the so-called debt brake, which limits public deficits in Europe&#8217;s biggest economy to 0.35% of gross domestic product, requires a two-thirds majority in both the lower and upper houses of parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Madeline Chambers and Sarah Marsh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects his government to take decisions on a possible reform of Germany&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[53106,2000,299,1945,15439,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-250798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-decisions","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-german-chancellor","13":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114823401587911818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}