Germany to reduce debt limit to allow more defense, infrastructure spending – national

Germany Parliament approved plans to increase the huge spending on Tuesday, as it threw contracts from the financial province in the hope of reviving economic growth and expanding the scope of military spending for a new era of European collective defense.

Approval in Bundestag Hands Leader Friedrich Mirz A big boost, the waiting advisor gave a range of billions of billions of euros to increase investment after two years of shrinkage in the largest economy in Europe.

Germany and other European countries were under pressure to support its defenses against hostilities and transformations in US policy during President Donald Trump, which European leaders fear will leave the continent exposed.

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Conservatives at Mirz and Social Democrats (SPD), who are holding talks to form a medium coalition after last month, want to establish a fund 500 billion euros ($ 546 billion) for infrastructure and reduce constitutional borrowing bases to allow higher security spending.

“We have felt at least a decade of the wrong sense of safety,” Mirz told legislators before the vote.

“The decision we make today is ready for defense … it cannot be less than the first main step towards a new European defense community,” he said.

The legislation still should go to the Bonndarat Senate, which represents the governments of the 16 federal states in Germany. The main obstacle to the traffic there appeared to fall on Monday when the Bavarian free voters agreed to support the plans.

Conservatives and SPD wanted to pass the legislation through outgoing parliament for fear that it would be banned through an expanded division of right -wing extremist legislators and legs in the next ruling starting on March 25. Mirz justified the tight timeline with a quickly changing geographical mode.