Friedrich Merz is not yet chancellor-for this, the conservatives of the CDU/CSU must still conclude a coalition agreement with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and their leader to be elected to the head of the government by the Bundestag-, but Germany has already changed, and the Europeans have started to integrate this new deal. At his request, that the outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz (SPD), relayed to his counterparts at a summit of European heads of state and government in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, the twenty-seven mandated the commission to work in new budgetary flexibility measures. It would thus be a question of softening, beyond what is already on the table, the criteria of the stability and growth pact for the member states which increase their military spending.
On Wednesday, March 5, the German ambassador to the European Union (EU), Michael Clauss, stomped his counterparts when, during a meeting upstream of the summit on Thursday, he pleaded for a future reform of community budgetary rules. In the room, where we are more used to seeing Berlin defend the strictest orthodoxy in public finances, the laughter has shot. “If Germany needs advice to spend more, we can help it”Hads a European diplomat from a “spending” country.
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