‘Fiscal bazooka’: Bundestag approves massive spending on militarization

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The lower house of the German Parliament voted Tuesday to bankroll a massive militarization plan as a backstop against Russian aggression.

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz pushed his fellow lawmakers to approve multiple amendments to the constitution that allow the government to side-step a “debt brake” clause that puts limits on its borrowing.

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