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Berlin to ask parliament to declare ‘exceptional emergency’ allowing it to create supplementary 2023 budget
Government in disarray after top court insists it abide by constitutional restrictions on public deficits
Bundestag committee postpones poll indefinitely following constitutional court ruling against coalition’s spending plans
Measure likely to affect €8bn in funding Berlin had pledged for Ukraine next year
Israel-Hamas war has prompted several ministers in Berlin to reconsider relations with Gulf kingdom
The repercussions of Germany’s top court striking down a domestic budgetary manoeuvre will spread to EU politics
Funds for Ukraine are secure, says Berlin, but Brussels has delayed agreement as it pushes for other expenses
Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules
Police and intelligence agencies swoop on more than 54 properties on Thursday
Karlsruhe verdict lands future spending plans and government’s solidarity in peril
Judges say government’s fund intended to subsidise chip factories and upgrade railways is illegal
Hubert Seipel has admitted to receiving €600,000 from a sanctioned oligarch
Ruling related to country’s enshrined debt brake risks spat within coalition and cash for energy transition
Berlin pledges to plug budgetary holes that will speed up procurement and help meet Nato targets
Deal to help shield country’s manufacturers from high energy costs likely to draw criticism from Brussels
Defence sales worth €300mn this year is 10-fold rise on 2022, with most licences approved after October 7 attack
Berlin’s asylum package, which could see processing centres set up outside EU, scales back benefits for refugees
Bitter immigration debate has pitted Scholz’s coalition and opposition parties against each other
An already fragmented political landscape is bracing for the arrival of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
Samidoun and other charities supporting the Palestinian militant group to be dissolved immediately
Daniel Halemba charged with possessing Nazi material, which is banned in Germany and carries a prison sentence
Support for Christian Lindner’s FDP haemorrhages among voters in recent regional elections
Daniel Halemba was detained just before taking up his seat in Bavaria’s state parliament
Leading book groups admit, amid questions over new work by UK shadow chancellor, that few use software to spot copying
Government seeks to make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers who are still in the country
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