Germany's likely next leader wins parliament's backing for huge defence, infrastructure spending

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..... Germany's likely next leader wins parliament's backing for huge defence, infrastructure spending
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Dated:- 18-3-2025
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Berlin, Mar 18 (AP) Germany's would-be next chancellor, Frie .....

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..... drich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defence spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, .....

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..... and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure. Merz passed a major test as the outgoing parliament voted 513-207 in its final meeting to approve the plans. The decisio .....

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..... n helps smooth the way for a governing coalition of Merz's centre-right Union bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz after he won last month's election. But he st .....

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..... ill faces plenty of work to seal a deal in ongoing talks. (AP) GRS GRS
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