Germany's likely next leader wins parliament's backing for huge defence, infrastructure spending

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....ermany's likely next leader wins parliament's backing for huge defence, infrastructure spending<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 18-3-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Berlin, Mar 18 (AP) Germany's would-be next chancellor, Fried....

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....rich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defence spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, a....

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....nd to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure. Merz passed a major test as the outgoing parliament voted 513-207 in its final meeting to approve the plans. The decision....

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.... helps smooth the way for a governing coalition of Merz's centre-right Union bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz after he won last month's election. But he sti....

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....ll faces plenty of work to seal a deal in ongoing talks. (AP) GRS GRS<BR> News - Press release - PIB....