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The Federal Government [1] [2] (German: Bundesregierung, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁeˌɡiːʁʊŋ] ⓘ; abbr. BReg) [3] is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany and exercises executive power at the federal level. It consists of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Ministers. [4]
Germany is a member of the NATO defence alliance, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the G8, the G20, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Germany has played a leading role in the European Union since its inception and has maintained a strong alliance with France since
Together with the Bundesrat, the Bundestag is the legislative branch of the German political system. Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.
The court said the move violated rules in the constitution that limit new borrowing to 0.35% of annual economic output. The government can go beyond that if there's an emergency it didn't create ...
The fallout has left Germany projected to be the worst-performing major economy this year, shrinking by 0.5%, according to the International Monetary Fund. Prospects for next year are only a ...
Germany is the second-largest development co-operation provider of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Bilateral co-operation constitutes the bulk of Germany’s official development assistance (ODA), under the overall lead of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), while the Federal Foreign Office oversees ...
The executive can also be the source of certain types of law or law-derived rules, such as a decree or executive order. In those that use fusion of powers, typically parliamentary systems, such as the United Kingdom, the executive forms the government, and its members generally belong to the political party that controls the legislature. Since ...
Robert Habeck, Germany’s economic minister and vice chancellor, pushed for Europe to create its own version of the social media platform X and urged the continent to break away from Silicon ...