The multibillion-euro package loosens borrowing limits and allows new investments in defense, infrastructure and climate. The plan was backed by the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, center-left SPD and Greens.

FRANKFURT - Germany's constitutional court has received more legal complaints from lawmakers against plans by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to hold a vote in parliament this week over a massive increase in state borrowing.

BERLIN -- Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday approved a major constitutional amendment to loosen the country's strict "debt brake" policy, paving the way for increased spending on defense, infrastructure, and climate neutrality.