The announcement by Germany’s Chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, that the parties which are likely to form the next government have agreed to substantially boost defence and infrastructure spending is a major policy shift that should support economic activity in the coming year or two. We had previously assumed that Germany’s budget deficit would remain stable at around 2.5% of GDP over the next couple of years but it now looks likely to be at least one percentage point higher than that.
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