BERLIN — Earlier this month, Germany’s constitutional court ruled that the government’s plan to redirect unused COVID-19 aid funds toward combating climate change violated the so-called debt brake.

BERLIN — The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision in September to pursue more monetary-policy easing was controversial, with one board representative, from Germany, resigning over the move.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) may have won a majority in September’s federal election, but that does not mean that the country’s future is clear.What emerges as Merkel seeks to form a new coalition with the Greens and the Free Democrats will n