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ZDFheute · Germany · Germany's 2027 budget: record new borrowing and a €140bn planning gap
Neutral breakdown of the cabinet's key points — total spending, the scale of new debt and the multi-year financing gap — setting the borrowing against the reformed debt brake.
“What the 2027 federal budget contains, and the debt it carries.”
ZDFheute · Germany · Merz demands 'all or nothing' on a 33-point pension overhaul
Itemises the 33 proposals clinically, separating what is already law from what is only recommended — the capital pillar (Kapitalrente), life-expectancy-linked retirement age from 2032, and the end of the deduction-free pension after 45 years.
“What the pension commission is actually proposing — measure by measure.”