(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, MAR 21 - Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday gave the final seal of approval to a massive spending package aimed at beefing up the country's military and overhauling its infrastructure.
The package, which modifies Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, needed a two-thirds majority to pass and was approved by 53 of the Bundesrat's 69 members, after it cleared the lower house on Tuesday.
The package is the brainchild of the incoming
government of the likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose
centre-right CDU/CSU is in coalition talks with the centre-left
Social Democrats (SPD) after February's election. US President
Donald Trump's overtures to Moscow over the Ukraine war have
convinced many German politicians of the urgent need to invest
in Germany's defence to become more independent from Washington.
(ANSA-AFP).
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