Germany’s Spending Gamble
24/07/2025
For decades Germany was allergic to debt. But new chancellor Friedrich Merz has - unexpectedly - loosened the country’s constitutional debt brake, injecting hundreds of billions of euros into the armed forces and infrastructure. The move, he hopes, will revive Europe’s largest economy and build up its military as Donald Trump’s US administration dismantles the transatlantic relations that underpinned Germany’s postwar recovery. The FT travels to Frankfurt and Berlin to examine why investment in crumbling schools, roads and rail infrastructure - and defence - is needed and to ask if the spending gamble will kickstart Germany's economic engine.
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Friedrich Merz
as Self
Olaf Storbeck
as Self
Armin Steinbach
as Self
Martin Wolf
as Self
Philippa Sigl-Glöckner
as Self
Franziska Brantner
as Self
Anja Bröker
as Self
Christian Böttger
as Self
Uwe Gehrmann
as Self
Katrin Oestreich
as Self
Felix Pakleppa
as Self
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
as Self
Donald Trump
as Self
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