MediaFaro News Digest<p>Germany’s Merz secures breakthrough on gargantuan spending plan.</p><p>Germany’s conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has reached a breakthrough with the Greens on a massive spending plan to unleash hundreds of billions of euros for defence and infrastructure, people familiar with negotiations told POLITICO.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250314-germanys-merz-secures-breakthrough-on-gargantuan-spending-plan?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250314</span><span class="invisible">-germanys-merz-secures-breakthrough-on-gargantuan-spending-plan?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/FriedrichMerz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FriedrichMerz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Defence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructure</span></a></p>