Use ‘strength of America’ to force Moscow into ceasefire, Trump urged – as it happened

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Germany is close to unlocking the way to a massive increase in state borrowing and reforming the constitutional debt break as three major parties are reportedly about to reach an agreement on the proposed changes.

The controversial proposal is a key part of the presumed next chancellor Friedrich Merz’s plan for Germany.

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