1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
PoliticsGermany

German lawmakers set for historic vote on debt rules

02:18

This browser does not support the video element.

Jenni Graham
March 17, 2025

German lawmakers will vote on big changes to the country's borrowing rules on Tuesday. Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his conservatives, along with their likely coalition partners, the center-left Social Democrats, will support the measures. But they will need support from at least one other party in the Bundestag.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW