Germany Dismantles Its Debt Brake: The €500 Billion Infrastructure Bet Reshaping European Markets
For over a decade, Germany's constitutional debt brake defined European fiscal orthodoxy—enshrining budgetary restraint as a near-sacred principle. In 2025, a newly elected government led by Friedrich Merz dismantled that constraint, unlocking €500 billion in infrastructure spending and fundamentally altering the fiscal trajectory of
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