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12 March 2025

Bruegel's Zettlemeyer: Can Germany afford to take most defence spending out of its debt brake?

Germany’s constitution contains a so-called debt brake – a constraint that keeps the structural deficit to 0.35 percent of GDP. This measure of fiscal prudence has been blamed for unduly holding back public investment in Germany, undermining modernisation 1 . However, in the context of ...

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