Berlin Raises the “Kenyan Flag” (Sudha David-Wilp, German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Germany’s outgoing parliament has held a historic vote to approve massive spending. Unprecedented times emboldened the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister Christian Social Union (CSU) party to join with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens to loosen the country’s constitutional debt brake, allowing for enormous investment in defense and infrastructure. They did so now to circumvent an incoming Bundestag that would almost certainly be more resistant.

Berlin Raises the “Kenyan Flag” | German Marshall Fund of the United States