The economists’ proposal would be “a double bazooka”, said Armin Steinbach, professor of economics at HEC, referring to the term used for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s stimulus during the Covid ...

Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel said the brake was a sensible safeguard for sustainable public finances in principle. Yet Germany was “doing well by international standards” with a debt ratio of 62 ...

The plan was announced on Tuesday, March 4. The economic "double bazooka" is indeed a major step forward by Berlin to regain the upper hand in the face of historic challenges, both domestic and ...