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Germany’s Merz in ‘difficult’ talks over plans to boost defence spending | Financial Times 28.02.2025

Debate over multibillion-Euro top-up to military fund is playing a central role in exploratory coalition discussions.


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The last time an outgoing parliament passed a law was in 1998, when then-chancellor Helmut Kohl convened an extraordinary session to approve air strikes on Serbia in the Kosovo conflict. But Armin Steinbach, professor at HEC, said Kohl “made a point in securing a very broad consensus among parties” and that it was not a change to the constitution.

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