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German upper house to vote on massive spending package

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2025-03-21
Berlin (dpa) - A massive German spending package to boost defence spending and earmark ?500 billion ($547 billion) for infrastructure and climate protection measures is set to clear the final hurdle on Friday when it faces a vote in the upper house, or Bundesrat. The package, which requires a historic easing of the country's debt limit, secured the necessary two-thirds majority in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, on Tuesday. Ho......
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