Constitutional reform passes last legislative hurdle days before outgoing parliament’s term expires

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.21-101658/https://www.ft.com/content/bf9dde37-2dc8-44df-b5f5-ef5dece888f6

On Friday, the constitutional reform secured the support of more than two-thirds of the seats in the Bundesrat, the upper house that represents Germany’s 16 federal states.

The changes, which were approved by the Bundestag earlier this week, loosen the country’s constitutional borrowing restrictions to allow unlimited defence spending and create a special €500bn, 12-year vehicle to modernise the country’s infrastructure.

  • miskOPEnglish
    422·
    2 days ago

    Polish parliament just barely passed a resolution that we’re okay with increased spending by the EU. Can’t wait for nazis to win German elections eventually and use those €500b to annex Gdańsk or something. At least there won’t be any fighting, because we won’t have a functioning army when we’re going to get rid of taxes that destroy entrepreneurship dreams of polish elites just like in 1772–1795.

    Sorry to butt that in here but both news were next to each other in my RSS feed and triggered my rambling mode.

    • Flubo@feddit.orgEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      While it is true that the rise of AFD is horrible and alarming it is also true that there is a big majority in germany completely against their world view. And these people more and more feel the urge to act. They should have started earlier, yes. But I am happy to see already a little movement of the so called " quiet middle" to be not so quiet anymore.

      Also, the rascist people voting for afd mainly want foreigners out of Germany but I think even within afd voters those that want to invade neighbours again are very few. Its not mainly heroic bodybuilder men that think they’re superior to all countries. Its a lot of middle aged man whining they cannot correctly pronounce people in the football team anymore. That doesn’t make them less racist or dangerous for Germany, but the danger for the neighbouring countries at least is -in my view- very little at the moment.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I hope you’re right, but this is the sort of dialog one might have had about the US a couple years ago. It’s alarming how quickly the tides can shift.