Klingbeil’s tax reform faces growing resistance within German coalition
(de-news.net) – Within Germany’s governing coalition, Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil’s (SPD) proposed tax reforms are facing significant opposition, particularly…
Germany grapples with record low Rhine levels, weighing river engineering
(de-news.net) – Germany’s exceptionally low river levels have intensified debate over how to respond to the growing impacts of drought…
Threshold tensions: Germany debates five-percent rule
(de-news.net) – Germany is debating whether to lower the five-percent electoral threshold after former Constitutional Court President Hans-Jürgen Papier and…
After Berlin attack, Germany reopens debate over extremism and justice
(de-news.net) – Germany is debating tougher security, justice, and prevention measures after a suspected Islamist attack in Berlin, with politicians…
Germany weighs political experience, gender, and consensus in Federal Presidential succession
(de-news.net) – The debate over the successor to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has increasingly focused on two interconnected questions as Germany…
Green ministers offer plan for debt-brake reform
(de-news.net) – Four Green state finance ministers have proposed an alternative reform of Germany’s constitutional debt brake after a government…
Beyond deregulation: Wildberger pushes a smarter approach to bureaucracy reform
(de-news.net) – Germany’s bureaucracy reform debate is shifting toward digital modernization, with Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) advocating targeted…
Merz defends coalition record, sets agenda for second half of 2026
(de-news.net) – In addition to outlining the coalition’s legislative agenda for the rest of 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended the…
Germany enacts healthcare overhaul amid wider legislative push
(de-news.net) – Significant changes to statutory health insurance, energy policy, federal policing, and parliamentary remuneration, and have been passed by…
Klingbeil defends reform package, says more changes still needed as health funding adjustments become known
(de-news.net) – Germany’s coalition defended its reform package as a necessary compromise combining tax relief, fiscal reforms, labor market changes,…